Fauci’s Diary Shows 5 Major Covid Lies He Told The American Public
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Fauci’s newly released diary confirms that the former NIAID director parroted several falsehoods to the public during the Covid outbreak.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., recently released former Covid czar Anthony Fauci’s diary entries surrounding his horrific handling of the viral outbreak, and boy is it a doozy. From proving the accuracy of The Federalist’s Covid reporting to reaffirming that Fauci has an obsession with … well, Fauci … the records further underscore how government officials lied to the public in the name of power and prestige.
That final point is especially true for Fauci, who, the documents show, parroted several falsehoods throughout the pandemic.
Covid Fatality
When the Covid outbreak became widespread, power-hungry government officials treated it as the second coming of the bubonic plague as a pretext to lockdown society. Yet the virus’ risks to the general population were not nearly as deadly as what they were made out to be — a fact Fauci recognized early on.
In an entry dated Feb. 8, 2020, Fauci described a purported phone call he had with Tom Frieden, who served as President Obama’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director. According to Fauci, the two discussed “various aspects of the [Covid] outbreak.”
The then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director wrote that he and Frieden “are on the same page” in their assessment that the Covid-19 virus “is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator” of total diagnosed cases “is much greater than” currently reported figures. Fauci further noted that this would make the “case fatality rate (CFR)” — the proportion of people who die from a disease among the total number infected over a certain period of time — “more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.”
Put another way, the risk of dying from Covid among the general population is not as great as initially feared.
Yet that’s not the tune that Fauci sang to the public in the weeks to come.
During a March 10, 2020, Hannity appearance, Fauci said that the “mortality for seasonal flu is 0.1,” and that the mortality for Covid-19 “is about 2, 2.5 percent.” While he subsequently noted that “[i]t’s probably lower than that” and “probably closer to 1 [percent],” he then stated, “But even if it’s 1, it’s ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu. You got to make sure that people understand that.”
Fauci would regurgitate similar rhetoric when testifying before Congress the following day. Under questioning from Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, the then-NIAID director said that “the seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1 percent,” and that “[t]he stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and now three.”
“I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu. I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand,” Fauci said.
Lab Leak Theory
Fauci was notorious for pouring cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak came as the result of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. But the newly released diary entries show Fauci himself acknowledged early on that the theory of the virus resulting from a Wuhan wet market — which he later appeared to parrot as the likely explanation, along with many others — lacked substantiation.
In a Jan. 26, 2020, entry, Fauci noted that recent “epi data and genomic data” indicated that “the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market.” He went on to recall how the Chinese government had claimed “that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market.”
“Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans,” Fauci wrote (emphasis added).
