Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious
disease official, said Thursday he feels safe
despite reports he’s received online threats and
has had uncomfortable personal encounters
with admirers that prompted the Trump
administration to assign him a security detail.
Fauci, a key member of the White House
coronavirus task force who appears almost
daily on televised briefings and news shows,
says there are things about his job that are
“sometimes disturbing.”
But Fauci, a plain-speaking expert on the
coronavirus who hasn’t shied away from publicly
correcting President Donald Trump’s erroneous
statements about the virus, told NBC’s “Today”
that he just focuses on the job he has chosen
and puts “all of that stuff aside.”