Democratic presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faced backlash after suggesting COVID-19 could be an "ethnically targeted" bioweapon to spare Jews.
This was not the only jibe Twitter boss Elon Musk took at the top medical officer of the US. Initially, he shared a meme on the micro-blogging site, which was aimed at US President Joe Biden and Fauci.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation. Fauci announces December departure from government service
Fauci, 81, has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and became the face of the US government's efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.