Five years after the COVID-19 lockdowns began, a mural at the National Institutes of Health that celebrated Dr. Anthony Fauci, widely seen as the face of the pandemic, along with an inspirational quote from him, is gone. 

The mural, which read that “science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it,” was cut away from a larger mural during the first weeks after President Donald Trump took office, three current NIH staffers, providing photographs of the missing mural, told The Washington Post.

An empty patch of wall remains to remember Fauci, who ended a career spanning 50 years at the agency in December 2022. 

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