Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (100% confidence)
The documented record directly contradicts this claim. On March 6, 2020, Fauci publicly described 'closing schools' as part of mitigation, and on March 15 he affirmed on CBS News that schools were shutting down. Most strikingly, his own diary entry for March 15, 2020 records that he 'convinced' NYC Mayor de Blasio to close NYC schools and that California's governor closed schools based on his advice that same night. Fauci's own 2024 CBS News interview further confirmed he believed the initial s…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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