Fauci Recorded COVID's Relatively Low Fatality Rate in His Diary, But Gave Congress a Figure That Was Obscenely Higher
By Joe Saunders
August 3, 2026 at 2:59pm
Numbers don’t lie — but that doesn’t mean health officials don’t lie about numbers.
That’s one of the biggest lessons from the continuing revelations about the government response to the coronavirus pandemic and its leader, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
Fauci famously pleaded the Fifth last week during an embarrassing appearance before the Senate, but his own words convict him.
As the news site Just the News highlighted Sunday, Fauci himself estimated in a diary entry that the mortality rate of the COVID-19 virus was about “0.2-0.3%.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/fauci-recorded-covids-relatively-low-fatality-rate-diary-gave-congress-figure-obscenely-higher/