Entries from early 2020 in a now-exposed personal diary kept by Dr.Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic show that he privately estimated the death rate from the illness was significantly lower than what he told Congress under oath only weeks later.Fauci, 85, has come under intense scrutiny for years regarding his approach leading the U.S.
response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his alleged links to the Chinese lab where the virus originated.He will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to speak about his newly publicized personal records."The stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent.
It first started off as two and three," Fauci said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, according to a transcript of the hearing.WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 04: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci prepares to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC.Senators questioned Fauci and other witnesses about the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old this week.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Getty Images)LEGACY MEDIA IGNORES MASSIVE ANTHONY FAUCI DOCUMENT RELEASE ALLEGING HE MISLED CONGRESS ON COVID ORIGINSDuring the hearing just weeks into the virus reaching the U.S., he was asked by Rep.Michael Cloud, R-Texas, to compare the mortality from COVID-19 to the mortality of the seasonal flu."I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu," Fauci continued.
"I think that is s...