Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, hinted at plans to retire in the near future as long as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations remain low.

“I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we might be there already, if we can stay in this,” Fauci said on Friday’s episode of the ABC News podcast Start Here.

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