Meet the media’s new favorite pandemic alarmist

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Move over, Anthony Fauci. There’s a new pandemic hype man in the greenroom.

President Biden was virtue signaling to the media when he said he wanted Fauci to remain in his position as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Journalists adore him, even more so now because he’s openly complaining about former President Donald Trump. But there’s someone else whom the media are citing with increasing frequency as an expert on the coronavirus.

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