Anthony S. Fauci to receive public welfare medal -- academy's most prestigious award

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2021 Public Welfare Medal to scientist, physician, and public health leader Anthony Fauci for his "decades-long leadership in combatting emerging infectious diseases, from the AIDS crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, and being a clear, consistent, and trusted voice in public health." The medal is the Academy's most prestigious award, established in 1914 and presented annually to honor extr...