Are you really going to try to say that the absurd levels of bile, vitriol, and threats that he received for doing his job during a pandemic has zero knock-on effect for other public health officials?

As others note, its the public health aspect of being a voice for science and reason, against the political backlash and death threats. I did not mean to imply USDA and NIAD related, except in needing public health policy people making decisions and statements in the public eye.

I remember in 2020 how a career public servant, colleague to those in USDA, was contradicted by the president because it made the administration's COVID response look bad.

Recently, the US president has decided he doesn't want to protect his public servant's lives anymore https://apnews.com/article/fauci-trump-security-detail-4b2e3...