Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
Fauci's own private diary entries, released in July 2026, directly contradict this claim: a March 15, 2020 entry records that he spoke with NYC Mayor de Blasio and 'convinced him...to close the NYC schools,' and a March 9, 2020 entry shows he told Gov. Cuomo 'yes' when asked about closing schools in a specific area. His later public statements — 'I had nothing to do with it' and 'Show me a school that I shut down' — are contradicted by his own contemporaneous private record. The claim asserts t…
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