Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
Note (source-tier adjustment): the strongest source cited for this verdict is press/institutional-tier; no primary, government, or peer-reviewed source was retrieved. Confidence is capped accordingly. Fauci's own diary entries directly contradict this claim: on March 9, 2020, he recorded telling Governor Cuomo 'yes' when asked whether to close schools in Westchester, and on March 15, 2020, he wrote that he 'convinced' Mayor de Blasio to close NYC schools. A separate diary entry from around Marc…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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