Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
The documented record directly contradicts this claim across multiple primary sources. Fauci's own private diary entries — released by Sen. Rand Paul's office in July 2026 from 1,847 pages of documents — show him writing on March 15, 2020 that he 'convinced' NYC Mayor de Blasio to close NYC schools, and on March 9, 2020 he wrote that when Gov. Cuomo asked whether to close Westchester schools, 'I tell him yes.' His March 2020 public guidance also called for school closures in areas with communit…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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