Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
Fauci's own diary entries, released in mid-2026, directly contradict this claim: on March 15, 2020, he wrote that he 'spoke with Bill de Blasio and convinced him … to close the NYC schools,' and a March 16 entry referenced official guidelines he pushed reflecting 'close schools where there is community spread.' He also wrote in March 2020 that he advised then-Gov. Cuomo to close schools in Westchester, and in June 2020 urged North Carolina's governor to delay reopening schools. Fauci did public…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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