Dr. Anthony Fauciwas thrust into the media spotlight this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Joe Biden appears to want Fauci to stick around next year, too.

Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and one of America's leading infectious disease experts, will be Biden's chief medical adviser when he enters the White House in January. Biden revealed to CNN on Thursday that he had asked Fauci, who is part of Trump's coronavirus task force, to also be part of his own COVID-19 response team.