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Sign up here to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases. In our conversation, he weighs in on vaccine mandates, booster shots and the end of the pandemic. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, described the current status of the pandemic in the United States as a “mixed bag” that is leaning more toward the positive than the negative.īut, he said, there is still more work to do.