Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (87% confidence)
Fauci's own diary entries, recently released through Congress, directly contradict this claim. A March 15, 2020 entry records him writing that he 'spoke with Bill de Blasio (Mayor – NYC) and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools,' and separately that California's chief of staff told him the governor had decided to close schools based on Fauci's TV appearances. These diary entries are Fauci's own private words, not someone else's c…
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