Director of Italy's top infectious disease hospital said Fauci would be welcomed 'with open arms' if Trump fires him

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• The director of a top Italian research hospital said he would welcome Dr. Anthony Fauci with open arms if President Donald Trump were to fire him. 
• Dr. Giuseppe Ippolito, the scientific director of Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital in Rome, told Associated Press that "the world needs Fauci." 
• According to the AP, Ippolito wrote a letter to Italian President Sergio Mattarella and other officials, in which he said that "Italy should welcome Fauci with open arms." He also praised Fauci's "generosity" and credited his Italian heritage.
• Trump and Fauci have expressed different approaches to tackling the coronavirus outbreak in the US, though both Fauci and the White House have dismissed reports of tension.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, has been invited to work at one of Italy's top hospitals if President Donald Trump ever fires him. 

Dr. Giuseppe Ippolito, the scientific director of Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital in Rome, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that Fauci's knowledge of infectious disease was unparalleled. Lazzaro Spallanzani was the first research center in Europe to isolate the genomic sequence of COVID-19.

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