The Relatable Thing Dr. Fauci Plans To Do When The Pandemic Is Over

To say that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been busy would be the understatement of the century. While most of us have been navigating Zoom meetings and taking up new quarantine hobbies like baking bread, Fauci has taken the lead in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is focused on the task at hand, but he does know the first thing he's going to do once the country can safely reopen — and it's completely relatable. During an interview with Maggie McKay on 94.7 The Wave, the doctor said that he and his wife, who also works at the National Institutes of Health, almost always leave work together each night and enjoy dinner at a small restaurant or bar.

Fauci explained that because the couple usually works quite late, they prefer to eat at restaurants rather than go home and cook. For now, it's takeout, but he looks forward to the day when they can "stop at a favorite small restaurant or bar and sit there ... have a beer and a hamburger or something and just relax."

When Fauci can enjoy the simple pleasure of having a burger and beer in a restaurant, he'll certainly have earned it (and then some). His packed daily schedule means he typically works 18 hours a day (via CNBC).

Fauci's daily job includes multiple TV and radio interviews; visiting COVID-19 patients being treated at the NIH; a number of video meetings with his staff, the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and NIH vaccine scientists; and responding to a nonstop barrage of phone calls and emails (via HuffPost). Fauci said his workday ends "when I'm so tired I can't do it anymore."

With the development of a COVID-19 vaccine providing the first good news in months, hopefully Fauci will be able to sit down in a restaurant sooner rather than later. "I'd like to get back to that kind of normality," he told McKay. "Just reconnect with the way things were when they were normal."