Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Fauci's own diary entries, published in July 2026, directly contradict this claim. His March 9, 2020 entry records him telling Gov. Cuomo 'yes' when asked whether to close schools in Westchester, and his March 15, 2020 entry states he 'convinced' NYC Mayor de Blasio to close schools and that California's governor closed schools based on his TV appearances. These are Fauci's own contemporaneous written accounts of advising officials to close schools, which flatly contradict the claim's 'never to…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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