More than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life across America, one of the most recognizable figures of the crisis is once again facing intense scrutiny.
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci is under renewed criticism after Republicans pointed to entries from his personal diary that they argue conflict with the warnings he delivered to the American public during the earliest months of the coronavirus outbreak.
The newly highlighted journal entries, obtained by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) before Fauci’s recent Senate testimony, have fueled fresh accusations that Fauci privately held a far different view of the virus’s fatality rate than the one he presented in television interviews and congressional hearings.
