Critics Target Fauci's Wife Over Ethics Role and Past AIDS Trials

Christine Grady earned a doctorate in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown and spent years at the National Institute of Nursing Research before authoring a 1995 book on AIDS vaccine efforts. In 2012 she was named head of the NIH Clinical Center's bioethics department, a move the article says omitted mention of her long marriage to Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID. The author points to Grady's earlier endorsement of AZT and questions whether she objected to its use in vulnerable populations, including foster children in New York City.

The piece further alleges that Grady had no public comment on Fauci's support for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology or on policies surrounding COVID-19 vaccinations for young children. Recent Senate hearings saw Fauci invoke the Fifth Amendment many times, leading to a contempt finding, and the article concludes that both Fauci and Grady have earned lasting public contempt.