Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke about retiring from public life as demands for his termination have grown louder this week.

Fauci, 81, told ABC News he is “certainly” thinking of retiring as President Biden’s top medical adviser. Suggesting he will stay on until the end of the pandemic, Fauci noted the pandemic might already be over.

“I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase and I think we might be there already, if we can stay in this,” Fauci said regarding the Democrats’ decision to lift coronavirus mask and vaccine mandates without a change in the science of transmission.