Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress

Diaries released from February 2020 suggest Dr. Anthony Fauci privately estimated COVID-19’s case fatality rate at about 0.2–0.3%, far below what he later told Congress under oath. Fauci, 85, is set to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to speak to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after the records became public. In House Oversight testimony on March 11, 2020, he cited mortality figures around 2% and discussed how counting minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infections could bring the rate toward 1%. The diary entry dated Feb. 8, 2020 cites 34,687 cases and 724 deaths, implying just over 0.2%.