#FauciEmails: Uncovered Emails About Masks Spark Outrage, Speculation

Journalist-obtained emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal that the bureaucrat said in February 2020 that surgical face masks are not effective for healthy people seeking to resist COVID-19 infection. Fauci has since repeatedly stated the apparent importance of masks in relation to the pandemic.

Another email with the subject line “My take on masks” from fellow bureaucrat Andrea Lerner, dated April 2021, has been nearly completely redacted, sparking some speculation online.

Newsweek reported Tuesday on Fauci’s email about surgical masks’ ineffectiveness for the healthy, dated February 5, 2020:

In an email on February 5, 2020, Fauci advised against wearing masks and said that face masks bought in a store would not be effective at protecting against the virus. He was replying to queries from one Sylvia Burwell, who may be to the same Sylvia Burwell who served as secretary for health and human services from 2014 to 2017.

“Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection,” Fauci wrote.

“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.”

“I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location,” he said.

Highlighting another email from Fauci on masks, Daily Wire podcast host and author Matt Walsh speculated, “Two Fauci emails. In one he says that masks are for sick people. In the other he admits that asymptomatic spread is rare. So why were people with no symptoms wearing masks for a year? It’s almost like it was all a charade.”

Politico Kassy Dillon highlighted Fauci’s changing message:

Podcast host Liz Wheeler remarked, “This will be my response anytime someone asks me to wear a mask: Dr. Fauci says the virus particles are too small to be stopped by a mask, therefore masks don’t work. Fauci’s words, in an email. What science has changed since then?”

In another email, dated April 2, 2020, Andrea Lerner from the National Institutes of Health wrote to Fauci with the subject line “My take on masks.”

“Given our discussion this AM, just thought I would summarize my take on masks across varying scenarios,” the email reads, with the rest of the message blocked out.

“It boggles the mind at what could be so sensitive that a bureaucrat’s take on mask wearing from April 2020 would need to be redacted from the #Fauciemails,” remarked legal analyst Philip Holloway. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated mask guidance in April for people vaccinated against COVID:

Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.

For unvaccinated Americans, the “CDC recommends that people wear masks in public settings, at events and gatherings, and anywhere they will be around other people.”

Related: Scientist Warned Fauci China Was Likely Lying About COVID Deaths. Fauci Said Email Was ‘Too Long For Me To Read’

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