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Fauci privately estimated COVID-19 death rate far lower than he gave Congress, diary shows

r. Anthony Fauci privately believed that the death rate of the COVID-19 was much lower than he told Congress just one month later, according to a record kept by the health official from February 2020. 

The diary entry was made public by Sen. Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, prior to Dr. Fauci’s testimony earlier this week. During his appearance, Fauci refused to answer any substantive questions and cited the 5th Amendment more than 110 times. 

During his time as the leading government health official during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci kept a meticulous record of his meetings, phone calls, and other day-to-day activities. 

Fauci has faced scrutiny from Republicans for years for his role in the early response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force that included recommendations for school closures and social distancing.

On March 11, 2020, as the coronavirus spread beyond China to Europe and the United States, Fauci told the House Oversight Committee that he estimated COVID-19’s fatality at 3% and told lawmakers it was much more deadly than the seasonal flu. 

The “case fatality rate” was “more like 0.2-0.3%”, Fauci’s personal notes reveal

“The 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 three,” Fauci told the committee at the time. 

“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,” Fauci continued. “I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.”

But, in a diary entry from just weeks before his testimony on Capitol Hill, Fauci memorialized a phone call with former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden in which both agreed the real “case fatality rate” was “more like 0.2-0.3%.”

“Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak. He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,” Fauci wrote in the February 8 diary entry. 

You can read Fauci’s notes below: 

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“Stirring up fear and anxiety”

Dr. Harvey Risch, Chairman of the Trump administration’s Cancer Panel at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Just the News that Fauci’s behavior is an example of the “gigantic hubris and toxic paternalism” in the public health industry. 

“The fact that he knew this and couldn’t say the truth in public means he had other interests to pursue,” Risch said on the Just the News, No Noise TV show.  

“And, I think the worst one of all the ones […] was his estimate of the fatality rate of COVID that he was saying publicly it was one to 2%, stirring up fear and anxiety, while privately he was writing that it was a 10th of a percent, which is like a bad flu and would not have generated the same anxiety in the general public had he spoken the truth,” Risch added. 

The more than 1,141 pages of records released by the Senate committee earlier this week provide the most detailed glimpse into Dr. Fauci’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s response to it. 

The pages show, for example, how Fauci appeared to work to squash the lab leak theory, even though he, nor the vast majority of the scientists he consulted, accepted the Chinese “wet market” theory of COVID-19 origin in early 2020. 

Fauci’s alleged Feb. 1, 2020 personal notes recount the phone call that eventually produced the Proximal Origin paper, which concluded natural origin was the only credible explanation for COVID’s emergence, Just the News previously reported. 

Only two of a dozen scientists on the call were “sure that this could occur naturally, and we should not waste our time and divert effort to pursue this,” Fauci said, referring to the possibility that the coronavirus’ unusual ability to easily infect humans was engineered.

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A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame

On the fifth anniversary of Brownstone Institute’s founding, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the diaries of Anthony Fauci during the Covid years until his retirement. They were written on government computers with the assistance of aides, so in no way are they private. They belong to the public, though it’s my judgment that it was intended to be notes toward an autobiography. 

Reading them carefully (1,100 pages but in book form it would be twice that long) took me almost a full week. It is a look inside the state/corporatist system possibly without precedent. It doesn’t provide the entire picture of events but it is remarkably candid, especially if you read and know the context outside of the diarist’s head. 

The first spin on this book is partially correct: it’s an exercise in vanity. True. Vast amounts of the text consist of hagiographic tributes without a hint of the grave damage done to people’s lives by the lockdowns, closures, and censorship. 

But there is much more here. It’s the story not only of the wreckage imposed on a nation and generation of kids; it’s also the story of the descent of a soul at every stage of decline: social climbing, fame, egomania, political machinations, megalomania, duplicity, self-deception, intensifying levels of malice, exhaustion using courtiers as salve, and ending in total defeat realized only inchoately. 

Reading it is a remarkable experience. It’s obviously not well written but that is a strength, a bit like how the Blair Witch Project is scarier due to its low budget. It’s raw and painful, alarming and shocking, and ultimately speaks to much more than the life of the author. It’s really a window into systemic corruption of nearly all the commanding heights of society itself, and offers a devastating indictment of the ruling class in government, media, science, and industry. 

Does Fauci catch on that the media was using him as much as he was using them; that is, that he inhabited a world of fakery? Maybe but he decides early on that it is his only choice. He has to keep it up, otherwise his whole world crumbles. He just kept going for one year, two years, then three. 

This Icarus just kept flapping his wings without realizing that they were melting. 

Another feature that stands out: It was always political theater and never about science. Multiple times, Fauci overrides evidence in favor of messaging toward his preferred political and industrial end.  As for the vaccine rollout, to say nothing of the boosters, it was pure chaos. As is well documented in this diary, the formulas could not outrun the mutations. And they knew it. 

Then you have this strange and persistent obsession of Fauci of maintaining social position with daily infusions of assurance that he is great, loved, admired, admitted to all the right parties, attended all the best events, with a contacts list that included the world’s rich, famous, and powerful. This is all he had to assure himself of his grand life. 

Even in the end, he does not seem to realize the role he played in upending the very system to which he so desperately wanted to belong. 

Yes, nearly every page makes us angry but finishing it leaves us with something we had not expected; something like the sadness we feel in a Gothic novel when a promising life takes a terrible turn toward perdition and somehow cannot find the escape from that path. 

This is the autobiography of Mr. Hyde, who in the fictional version surely knows he is bad. In this version, Mr. Hyde believes he is Dr. Jekyll. 

The Picture of Dorian Gray also comes to mind. Fauci guarded his reputation as a scientist just as Dorian guarded his seeming youth. To do so required a costly exchange, the praise of the multitudes but escalating corruption. In both stories, the status of the soul (represented by the painting for Dorian) belies appearances. 

Nowhere could he have anticipated during the writing of the book that six years after his apotheosis he would be trapped in a chair in a Senate chamber, ashen and defeated, surrounded by silent lawyers, his accusers on all sides, pleading the 5th Amendment 111 times. 

The wings completely melted. De profundis clamavi. 

I invite you and everyone to spend time with this book for the ages. It will be a long time, if ever, before we ever again have access to such a document. 

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Memo Gives Blueprint For Investigating Fauci’s Massive ‘Curated Misinformation Effort’

he Counterlawfare Institute obtained a previously undisclosed June 8, 2025, memo laying out a blueprint for the Department of Justice to investigate Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health’s contributions toward the influential “Proximal Origin” scientific paper that argued the Covid-19 virus originated from nature, not a lab.

The memorandum was written by Michael Caputo, a former senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official who later served as an adviser in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and addressed to Ed Martin, then director of the Department of Justice’s Weaponization Working Group. It later emerged that Caputo was under secret federal surveillance at the time.

In the memo, Caputo encourages the DOJ to investigate whether federal officials misled U.S. intelligence and directed millions of taxpayer dollars to scientists who “falsely distracted the public from government misconduct that lead to massive illness and deaths worldwide.”

The administration later imposed financial consequences on the paper’s publisher, suggesting that at least some action followed. Some recent revelations from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., may also trace back to this effort. But what became of the broader investigation, whether it was formally opened, remains active, or was allowed to lapse, is unknown.

HHS Weaponization

The memo lays out an investigation into whether Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other federal officials manipulated government power, scientific opinion, official data, taxpayer funding, and intelligence agencies to misdirect the Covid pandemic response, conceal the American government’s possible responsibility for the emergence of Covid, and mislead the public about the origin of the virus.

The memo explicitly contemplates “sufficient evidence of misconduct and a likelihood of prosecution,” while calling for the victims whose careers and reputations have been destroyed to be identified and made whole. It notes that National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya had a team working on a briefing.

Whether the newly unearthed Fauci diaries emerged from that effort is not yet known. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that it took officials “about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers, where they had been sequestered and secreted.” Most significantly, the memo identifies the publication of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper not as an isolated scientific failure, but as the opening move in what the memo described as a “curated misinformation effort.”

Fauci’s Central Role

The memo places Fauci at the center of the “Proximal Origin” operation, pointing to his role in the paper’s development and later promotion. As the memo notes, the paper’s authors sought extensive input from Fauci, his boss, then-NIH Director Francis Collins, and others while developing the paper. Fauci worked hand in glove with them as their private suspicions of a laboratory origin were transformed into a publication purporting to dismiss that very possibility.

Then, on April 17, 2020, Fauci stood beside President Trump at the White House podium and presented the paper as the independent work of scientists with whom he claimed no familiarity. He said that he did not have the authors’ names in front of him and conveyed the impression that he did not know who they were. That was false.

Fauci knew exactly who the authors were. He had worked closely with them as the paper was developed. He knew what they had initially believed, how their conclusions had changed, and the extent of his own involvement in producing the scientific authority he was now presenting to the country as independent.

The deception therefore operated on two levels. First, Fauci worked with the authors to produce a paper dismissing a laboratory origin. Then, just as the memo described, he promoted that paper from the White House as outside validation of the government’s position, while concealing his own role in its creation.

The government helped create the scientific authority that protected it from scrutiny, then pointed to that authority as proof that independent experts had vindicated it.

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The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are Also Journalists

There is a frustrating contradiction when it comes to the way public information is assessed for factual truth.  For decades, prominent news organizations have steadily lost credibility.  Fewer Americans than ever believe what The New York Times, CNN, NPR, or even the AP publishes as the “objective” record of current events.

At the same time, however, alternative, competing descriptions of current events are almost entirely ignored.  No matter how compelling or factually sourced a story might be, it is largely disregarded until mainstream corporate news institutions are willing to recognize its validity.

This annoying state of affairs was highlighted last week after Dr. Anthony Fauci refused to testify before the Senate.  Although the man holds one of Joe Biden’s get-out-of-jail-free autopen pardons, Fauci cowardly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than a hundred times.

With a general pardon in hand that presumably allows him to get away with past acts of mass murder, he could put himself in legal jeopardy only by not telling the truth while under oath at the hearing.  So long as Fauci avoided newly committing perjury, there was no risk to his liberty.  The fact that he nevertheless remained mum the whole time revealed a particularly guilty conscience: Fauci could not bear the thought of admitting to the world that he told numerous lies in the past.

To be sure, Fauci’s lies are huge and unforgivable.  He lied about COVID arising from inter-species transmission in an outdoor meat market rather than from a bioweapons laboratory re-engineering coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.

He lied about not having partially funded deadly coronavirus research at that lab as part of a workaround to American regulatory prohibitions against such dangerous projects.  He lied about COVID’s lethality, especially with regard to young or healthy bodies.  He lied about the efficacy of simple masks to prevent viral transmission.  He lied about the need to close schools and businesses.  He lied about the need for draconian home confinements.  He lied about the effectiveness of the experimental mRNA injections that he called “vaccines.”  He lied about the proven effectiveness of alternative treatments.  He lied about the effectiveness of natural immunity.

His lies were profound, and because mainstream news institutions refused to question anything he said, his lies were the only bits of information allowed to circulate in the public sphere.  So-called “journalists” not only repeated verbatim exactly what the government’s chief medical bureaucrat claimed to be true but also cheered social media platforms for censoring competing points of view.

“Reporters” working for The New York Times and CNN were enthralled by Fauci’s perceived professional prestige and institutional authority.  Why?  Because they are enamored of their own perceived professional prestige and institutional authority.  They worship glory and accolades; they are slaves to appeals to authority; they care nothing for the pursuit of truth.

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Sen. Lummis: Fauci ‘Lied to the American People and Congress’ and Is ‘Responsible for the Overwhelming Number of Deaths’ Because He Blocked Ivermectin

More Americans have died with COVID-19 listed as the cause of death than the number of U.S. service members killed in World War II.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data record more than 1.1 million COVID-19 deaths in the United States through 2025. The Department of Veterans Affairs and Congressional Research Service list 405,399 American military deaths in World War II. That disparity framed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday at which Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared.

Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, declined to answer questions about pandemic origins, research funding, his diaries, treatment guidelines, and related decisions. Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., scheduled a vote next week on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.

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Is Anybody Ever Going To Say, “I’m Sorry”?

This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before Congress and, on the advice of his attorney, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answering many of the senators’ questions.

Everyone is talking about what he did or didn’t know, whether he misled Congress, whether he should have answered the questions, and whether he should be held accountable.

But that wasn’t the moment from this week that I can’t stop thinking about.

My husband called me as he was driving home from picking up grain for the hogs. He had stopped at Restaurant Depot to grab pizza boxes and a few supplies for the ranch. Rarely does he pay attention to American politics. Rarely is he interested in the stories that consume me.

He simply asked, “What’s going on with Fauci?”

I explained that he had spent much of the hearing invoking the Fifth Amendment rather than answering senators’ questions.

There was a long pause.

Then he asked me something that caught me completely off guard.

“Is anybody ever going to say, ‘I’m sorry. I was wrong. It cost you and your family everything?”

I had to choke back tears because no—nobody has ever said that to us.

My husband and I worked hard. We built businesses. We lived what most people would call the American dream. We weren’t looking for a bailout. We weren’t failing. In fact, when COVID-19 hit, we were just weeks away from selling our restaurant company under a $31 million contract.

Then came “two weeks to slow the spread.”

Two weeks became months. Months became years.

Government policies, not the virus itself, destroyed everything we had spent decades building.

This hearing didn’t make me feel any better. If anything, it ripped open wounds that had finally started to scar over.

Americans are still carrying losses that will never appear on a government balance sheet. They exist instead as tears in the fabric of lives that once felt secure. Businesses built over decades disappeared. Retirement accounts were drained. Marriages came under tremendous financial pressure. Ours was one of them. Homes were lost. Careers ended. Dreams were abandoned. Six years later, many of those wounds have not healed.

It would be easy to make this article about Fauci, but the truth is he is just one bureaucrat.

He may be the most recognizable face of the pandemic response and one of its highest-paid officials, but he was never acting alone. Governors issued orders. County health departments enforced them. School boards complied. Corporate executives complied. Church leaders complied. Republicans complied. Democrats complied.

And so did we, the people.

That may be the hardest part for me to admit. Yes, I am angry at Fauci, but, to be honest, I am just as angry at us.

When I say “us,” I don’t mean that I personally embraced those policies. I questioned them from the beginning.

I have never been vaccinated. That wasn’t a decision I made because of COVID-19. It was how I had lived my entire life. My mother raised me to question pharmaceuticals and to be cautious about trusting the government. That foundation shaped how I viewed the pandemic from the very beginning.

I don’t think that made me special. I think it made me less susceptible to what I believe was the greatest psychological operation of my lifetime.

But we, the people, largely complied.

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Dr. Birx Does Damage Control, Throws Fauci Under the Bus After Disastrous Hearing

Former White House COVID Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx threw Fauci under the bus after the former NIAID director refused to answer questions during last week’s senate hearing.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former NIAID director and face of America’s disastrous COVID response, finally appeared under subpoena last Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

After enjoying his celebrity status and appearing on all of the networks during the Covid pandemic, all of a sudden Fauci shut his mouth and refused to explain his actions.

Fauci (unlawfully) pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

Dr. Fauci’s former ‘partner-in-crime’ – Dr. Birx, AKA, ‘scarf lady,’ threw him under the bus after the hearing.

During an appearance on Newsmax, Dr. Birx claimed that the blue states “overclosed” and said it was all political.

“There were solutions, but it became very political, and we all have to be aware, because it was a presidential election year,” Birx said.

She continued, “It was really important for blue states to show that they were taking this very seriously, and they overclosed. And we just have to be honest that that happened!”

This is the same lady who told people to wear goggles and put on multiple masks.

Never forget that Birx was also caught flying to visit her family during Thanksgiving while telling everyone else not to visit theirs.

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Senator Roger Marshall Blasts Dr. Fauci, ‘He Was Drunk with Power, He Was Drunk with Pride, He Was Drunk with His Own Celebrity’

Senator Roger Marshall was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo this weekend. He blasted Dr. Fauci for what happened during the COVID lockdowns. They also discussed Fauci’s hearing before Congress last week.

Marshall explained that Fauci was prideful and was very focused on his own celebrity.

“You were sitting right behind him. What can you tell us about that hearing?” Bartiromo asked.

“First of all, Fauci was literally shaking as he read his opening statement,” Marshall said.

“If Americans take the time to read his diary, they are gonna see that this was a guy that was full of pride. He was drunk with power, he was drunk with pride, he was drunk with his own celebrity,” Marshall said.

“This is the Anthony Fauci that I saw through those five years. Never any remorse. Never any concern for the people dying, let alone the ones he was locking out of churches, out of schools, out of their jobs,” Marshall continued.

“He was not only reading his own press clippings, but he was also, you know, he was putting it in his own diary as well,” Marshall said.

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COVID-19: Fauci’s Holocaust

I am usually a forgive-and-forget kind of guy. 

When I was 18, a guy painting our house accidentally lost his grip on a can of paint, which then rolled off the roof and exploded on the hood of my already bedraggled, orange 1974 Gremlin X. No problem, it was an accident. 

In 1990, a neighbor living above me in New York City left his water running in his tub to thaw a Thanksgiving turkey and took a nap. His tub overflowed, flooding his floor and eventually sending a chunk of wet tenement ceiling onto my 12-inch TV (I know, I’m bragging). No big deal, feces happens.

But nothing about COVID was an accident. It was planned, calculated, and orchestrated by a nameless cabal of deep state miscreants and an evil little man named Dr. Anthony Fauci.

COVID was nothing less than a modern-day Holocaust. It killed roughly seven million people worldwide. Economies crumbled, and trillions of dollars were lost. Families were kept apart on holidays. We watched our grandparents die alone on tablets. Funerals were either not allowed or limited to 10 people. Children didn’t go to school, creating years of educational and emotional damage they still feel today.

The COVID virus and the responses were some of the most evil, premeditated tactics humans have ever wrought upon mankind. What we also endured was a years-long propaganda-fest that would ideologically tear families apart, cost people their livelihoods, and have people at each other’s throats in what many were duped into believing was an existential threat to everyone on the planet.

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Trump and Fauci: The Nefarious Tag Team Executing the Genetic Kill Switch on Humanity

The Genetic Kill Switch Introduction

We are living through the final act of a planned global genocide. According to my research findings, Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci are not adversaries — they are tag-team partners in a depopulation agenda that uses a binary weapon to trigger a genetic meltdown of the human race. (I’ll explain more below…)

The first component of this weapon is the spike protein contamination from mRNA injections, which Fauci orchestrated through gain-of-function bioweapons research at the Wuhan lab and laundered into so-called vaccines via Operation Warp Speed (pushed by Trump).

The second component is nuclear war, which Trump is likely to invoke to “finish the job” in Iran. The fallout of radioisotopes causes double-strand DNA breaks in human cells, and the spike protein has already suppressed DNA repair by 85–90%. Together, they form a kill switch that will melt down the genetic integrity of billions of humans and end humanity as we know it.

Here is how this unspeakable plan was set in motion, why the government lies about radiation risks, and what you can do to survive.

The Spike Protein Bio-Weapon: Fauci’s Contribution to Mass Genetic Contamination

Let’s trace the chain of command. Fauci, through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance. Newly released documents show Fauci actively protected Daszak from federal scrutiny while suppressing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab leak [1]. The result was a gain-of-function spike protein toxin.

As I have previously reported, the spike protein’s modified cleavage site was engineered into the mRNA, and that same synthetic spike is now being produced inside billions of human bodies via the so-called vaccines [2].

The genetic damage from these mRNA injections is catastrophic. A ground-breaking Swedish-Chinese study showed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein impairs DNA damage repair and inhibits the BRCA1 and 53BP1 pathways [3]. In plain English, this means the spike protein suppresses the cell’s ability to fix broken DNA by 85 to 90 percent.

The result is turbo cancers, immune failure, and accelerated aging. On top of that, the mRNA shots are contaminated with bacterial DNA plasmids that can integrate into the human genome and trigger cancer [4][5]. This is not a vaccine, in other words — it’s a genetic bioweapon designed to contaminate the entire population and prepare every injected person for the nuclear “genetic meltdown” kill switch.

Trump’s Complicity: From Operation Warp Speed to Nuclear War

Trump cannot pretend to be innocent. He authorized emergency use of the mRNA injections, bragged about Operation Warp Speed, and repeatedly protected Fauci from prosecution. Emails have now revealed that Fauci and then-NIH director Francis Collins agreed to suppress the lab-leak theory for political reasons, and Trump’s administration did nothing to stop it [6]. In fact, Trump’s own FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, recently stated that Fauci was “100% involved” in a “massive” COVID origins cover-up [7]. Yet Trump never held Fauci accountable. Why?

Because they are co-conspirators. They answer to the same boss.

Now Trump is set to launch nuclear weapons in his desperate escalation of war with Iran or Russia. As of early 2026, Trump has escalated rhetoric against Russia, shortening a “50-day” warning to “10 to 12 days” and threatening strikes deep into Russian territory. This is a deliberate provocation designed to trigger a nuclear response that could kill up to 200 million Americans from the initial strikes alone.

The radiation from those bombs will circulate globally and cause double-strand DNA breaks, but the spike protein has already disabled the body’s repair machinery in billions of people. That means billions of human beings will die from genetic damage that could have otherwise been self-repaired if not for the presence of the spike protein, an engineered toxic and part of a binary weapon system targeting human genetic integrity.

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