Benefiting from Covid: Anthony Fauci is asking up to $100,000 for an HOUR of ‘motivational speeches’

dr Anthony Fauci is charging sky-high speaking fees as the controversial figure reaps the rewards of his pandemic-era fame.

The former White House Covid doctor is charging between $50,000 and $100,000 for up to an hour’s work, according to a listing on the Leading Motivational Speakers agency’s website, which has since been scrubbed.

Despite his hefty fee, Fauci is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at Yale School of Medicine on May 22 — though it’s unclear how much the college is paying him.

The 81-year-old recently resigned from his post as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he earned more than $480,000 annually, the highest salary of any government employee, more than what the president earns.

dr Fauci – whose net worth is estimated at more than $12 million – became a highly divisive figure during his response to the pandemic. Critics slammed him for exaggerating the effectiveness of vaccines to boost uptake, flipping face masks and pushing for lockdowns.

Pictured above is Dr. Anthony Fauci delivering Class Day Remarks at Princeton University Graduation Sessions. It is unclear how much he was paid for the address

The lecture fees of Dr. Fauci were only available on Monday at Leading Motivational Speakers

The lecture fees of Dr. Fauci were only available on Monday at Leading Motivational Speakers.

But there was outrage on social media when an aide to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted a screenshot of the listing with the caption “Seriously???”

His information appears to have been removed and a search of his name on the website now yields no results

Substack journalist Jordan Schachtel criticized the listing on Twitter, writing: “Follow the science… From 50,000 an hour.”

Meanwhile, former Trump campaign aide Kingsley Cortes wrote: ‘The gift that reaches further.’

dr Fauci was originally a revered figure and a widely cited expert on infectious diseases – regarded as a safe pair of hands in the face of a new, unknown pathogen and dubbed “America’s doctor”.

But its credibility has taken a hit since the peak of the pandemic.

Among his most notable blunders during the pandemic was an early recommendation to the public not to wear masks in public places, saying they would have little use.

He later admitted to downplaying masks so Americans wouldn’t rush to buy them and risk a shortage of medical workers.

dr Fauci has also been a key organizer of widespread lockdowns during the pandemic. Countless companies followed his guidance and had to close their doors in spring 2020.

When the Omicron subvariant began to strike last November, Dr. Fauci didn’t immediately announce another lockdown, saying at the time that Americans had to be ready to do “anything and everything” to fight it.

And millions of Americans were put off by his perceived arrogance when he made statements like, “Attacks on me are, frankly, attacks on science.”

In 2020, he refuted theories that Covid-19 had escaped or been deliberately released from a lab in Wuhan, China, where scientists had been tinkering with highly dangerous pathogens like coronaviruses in a type of research called ‘gain-of-function’.’

In April 2020, he dismissed the theory as “a shiny object that will disappear” and later brushed aside claims made by other top experts as “opinion”.

But it has since declined in the face of public scrutiny for failing to include perspectives outside of mainstream academia. He said in July last year that he and other virologists “are open to the theory” of lab leaks, although “it looks very much like this is a natural occurrence.”

According to a government watch group, Dr. Fauci grew to an estimated $5 million during the 2019-2021 pandemic.

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