Former President Joe Biden issued a sweeping 11th-hour pardon for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci before he left office Monday.
The pardon dates back to January 1, 2014, covering all of Fauci’s time as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and his time as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden. He didn’t become a household name until the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world in early 2020, but Fauci’s work that some believe sparked the pandemic triggered a pardon that stretched back years earlier.
Notably, the Biden pardon of Anthony Fauci begins on “January 1, 2014.” pic.twitter.com/4pthsTONwH
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 20, 2025
Fauci’s pardon is backdated to cover the period in which the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a May 2014 grant to EcoHealth…
