Dr. Anthony Fauci is really tired.
The federal government’s top infectious disease expert is leading research on the coronavirus while serving as one of the administration’s top spokesmen on the response to the pandemic.
But it’s the near daily White House coronavirus task force briefings, some more than two hours long, that Fauci said are “really draining.”
“If I had been able to just make a few comments and then go to work, that would have really been much better,” he told the Associated Press. “It isn’t the idea of being there and answering questions, which I really think is important for the American public. It’s the amount of time.”
Fauci, who has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said earlier this month that he was averaging three hours of sleep a night, but after his wife said she was going kill him, he increased the amount to five hours.
“Those extra two hours is like everything in the world,” he said.
