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Private diary entries and emails attributed to Anthony Fauci, released by Sen. Rand Paul, reveal that the former NIAID director privately questioned whether lockdowns and closures affected COVID case counts in June 2020.
The documents add a policy accountability layer to one of the more consequential economic episodes in recent memory, a period when government money printing tied to lockdown support helped seed the inflation run that followed.
The lockdown paper trail In a June 18, 2020 message to Deborah Birx, his fellow task force member, Fauci wrote that he had been "obsessing about the increases in cases that do not seem to be related to openings or closings or massive crowds." He described "something inherent here that we are missing." Three months later, in September 2020, he publicly stated that Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis was "asking for trouble" by reopening the state. His own diary entries describe advising the mayor of New York City and the chief of staff for California Gov. Gavin Newsom on business and school closures.
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