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   Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health   
   and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the   
   health bureaucrats who received a layoff notice on Tuesday, according to   
   news reports.   
      
   Grady was given the boot as part of the post-pandemic restructuring of the   
   Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to the New York   
   Times and STAT News. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his top aides   
   have said the layoffs are aimed at consolidating administrative functions   
   and overhauling a failed status quo in Americans’ health.   
      
   Some NIH leaders were given the option of transferring to one of the field   
   offices of the Indian Health Service in Alaska, Montana, Minnesota, and   
   other locations far removed from Washington, DC. But it’s not clear   
   whether Grady was among the officials given the option of taking up a   
   remote post hundreds of miles from the couple’s tony Beltway neighborhood.   
   The couple had a net worth of $11.5 million by the time of Fauci’s 2022   
   retirement, according to federal disclosures, a jump from $7.6 million   
   before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Open The Books.   
      
   Even an NIH official who described Grady as well respected acknowledged   
   that her marriage to Fauci impacted the ability of the institutes to   
   tackle ethical questions that risked reflecting poorly on the former White   
   House medical advisor.   
      
   An NIH official speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Daily   
   Caller News Foundation that Grady was “a good person with a major conflict   
   of interest.”   
      
   “One of the problems when the coverup was going on of the Wuhan lab leak,   
   that whole fiasco, was that they were not listening to anyone giving   
   ethics advice,” the official said. “If they had had someone at the table   
   with knowledge of this, they would have said: ‘Hey do you want to play it   
   this way, or be more transparent?’ Someone could have raised the   
   question.” (RELATED: ‘Pandemic Is Over’: All NIH COVID Grants Eliminated   
   Under New Directive)   
      
   “That’s something Christine Grady could have, or should have, done,” the   
   official continued. “She wasn’t able to do it because she was Fauci’s   
   wife.”   
      
   “Maybe they had discussions in private about what was going on,” the   
   official said. “She was placed in a conflicted role because of that.”   
      
   Other NIH officials in Fauci’s inner circle were also let go.   
      
   Clifford Lane, who had worked at Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and   
   Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1991 — most recently as deputy director   
   of clinical research and special projects — was also let go, according to   
   the New York Times.   
      
   NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Director Emily   
   Erbelding has also been let go, according to Government Executive.   
   Erbelding was involved in communications with Fauci and with EcoHealth   
   Alliance President Peter Daszak about the connection between the NIAID and   
   high-risk virology in Wuhan, China, in 2020 according to emails obtained   
   by U.S. Right to Know through the Freedom of Information Act and a   
   congressional investigation.   
      
   Emailed requests for comment to Grady, Lane and Erbelding received no   
   immediate response. A phone call to the NIH Department of Ethics was   
   answered but abruptly ended when the receptionist learned this reporter   
   was calling.   
      
   https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/02/faucis-wife-nih-bioethicist-who-never-   
   probed-ethics-wuhan-research-fired/   
      
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