text:  Asked why he did just not quit during COVID over so much pressure, disinformation and death threats. Former top U.S. infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci. I just felt that we had to have somebody there who is actually getting the correct information to the American public. I have felt and still do a very strong responsibility to the American public, not to any administration or any person, but to the American public. Fauci on ABC's This Week. He has a new memoir out.