{"id":2639853,"date":"2026-08-03T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-recorded-covids-relatively-low-fatality-rate-in-his-diary-but-gave-congress-a-figure-that-was-obscenely-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:18:51","slug":"fauci-recorded-covids-relatively-low-fatality-rate-in-his-diary-but-gave-congress-a-figure-that-was-obscenely-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-recorded-covids-relatively-low-fatality-rate-in-his-diary-but-gave-congress-a-figure-that-was-obscenely-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Recorded COVID&#8217;s Relatively Low Fatality Rate in His Diary, But Gave Congress a Figure That Was Obscenely Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-recorded-covids-relatively-low-fatality-rate-in-his-diary-but-gave-congress-a-figure-that-was-obscenely-higher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2639853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-held-hostage-by-hamas\/\" title=\"Americans Held Hostage by Hamas\">provided content appears<\/a> to be a mix of web page code, scripts, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/double-check-your-ballot-ky-machine-marked-trump-vote-for-harris\/\" title=\"Double-Check Your Ballot: KY Machine Marked Trump Vote For Harris\">article discussing issues related<\/a> to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main points highlight concerns about the accuracy and openness of facts shared by Dr. Anthony fauci. It reveals that Fauci privately estimated the COVID-19 mortality rate at about 0.2-0.3%, significantly lower than the 1-2.5% he publicly stated to Congress. The article criticizes Fauci for allegedly altering his public statements to fit certain narratives,such as inflating the death rate to justify lockdown measures. It argues that these discrepancies led to needless suffering, economic harm, and loss of life, suggesting that FauciS private words expose potential deception.the piece portrays Fauci as someone who manipulated facts for personal or political gain, raising questions about the true nature of his motivations during the pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Numbers don\u2019t lie \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t mean health officials don\u2019t lie about numbers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the biggest lessons from the continuing revelations about the government response to the coronavirus pandemic and its leader, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-rand-paul-warns-fauci-repercussions-refuses-answer-questions-senate-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded the Fifth<\/a> last week during an embarrassing appearance before the Senate, but his own words convict him.<\/p>\n<p>As the news site <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/health\/fauci-privately-estimated-covid-19-death-rate-lower-congressional-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> highlighted Sunday, Fauci himself estimated in a diary entry that the mortality rate of the COVID-19 virus was about \u201c0.2-0.3%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The notation came as he described a conversation with Tom Frieden, who was then the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak. He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,\u201d Fauci wrote in the Feb. 8, 2020, diary entry.<\/p>\n<p>Yet only a few weeks later, in sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, he said the mortality rate \u2014 the rate at which a COVID-19 infection would kill its victim \u2014 was 1 percent \u2014 three to five times higher than he apparently actually believed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fauci\u2019s diary says he privately put COVID\u2019s fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%. Under oath weeks later, he told Congress it was 10x the flu. The timeline:<\/p>\n<p>Feb 8, 2020 (private diary): case fatality rate \u201cmore like 0.2-0.3%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>March 10 (Hannity): \u201cThe mortality for this is about 2-2.5%.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMBAAkfUBG\">pic.twitter.com\/rMBAAkfUBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/2081612554292592964?\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  By comparison, the seasonal flu generally has a mortality rate of 0.1 percent, Fauci told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in March 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/GO\/GO00\/20200312\/110713\/HHRG-116-GO00-Transcript-20200312.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minutes show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around 1 percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,\u201d Fauci told lawmakers. \u201cI think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, most people are now getting their arms around something else entirely \u2014 that the man who arrogantly represented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-claims-never-anti-trump-trump-supporters-dont-understand-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">face of \u201cScience\u201d<\/a> for so long was telling the representatives of the American people one thing while saying something else completely in private (or as \u201cprivate\u201d as a bureaucrat can be when he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/faucis-personal-diary-just-got-released-brutal-self-absorbed-fame-seeking-celeb-worshiping-power-mad-liar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording his innermost thoughts<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/28\/politics\/anthony-fauci-diary-rand-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government computers<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it\u2019s not completely surprising that Fauci would deliberately misrepresent his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/24\/health\/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times interview<\/a> back in December 2020, he admitted changing his public statements about \u201cherd immunity\u201d \u2014 the level of resistance to the coronavirus it would be necessary to achieve before the pandemic would fade \u2014 based on the public\u2019s acceptance of vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,\u201d Fauci told the nation\u2019s alleged \u201cNewspaper of Record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, \u2018I can nudge this up a bit,\u2019 so I went to 80, 85.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That report wasn\u2019t judgmental about Fauci\u2019s confession \u2014 if anything, it was portrayed in a positive, almost heroic, light. But it proved, using Fauci\u2019s own words, that the good doctor was more than willing to lie to the American public to advance his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And after all this time, the question remains: What exactly was Fauci\u2019s agenda? The answer seems clear.<\/p>\n<p>He reveled in the power and influence the pandemic gave him, just as big-government Democrats reveled in their abuses of civil liberties. Had Fauci told lawmakers in March of 2020 that he considered the coronavirus pandemic to be maybe twice or three times as deadly as the seasonal flu, there\u2019s a good chance that the madness the country endured over the ensuing years would have been greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Would heavy-handed statists still have tried to impose their lockdowns on schools, churches, and other American institutions? Almost certainly. Leftists love nothing more than an excuse to expand their power.<\/p>\n<p>But would the American public have stood the trammeling of its traditional rights for what amounted to a severe flu season, rather than a supposedly apocalyptic viral scourge that was putting global civilization on the road to dystopia?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americans-say-no-way-covid-restrictions-vow-spend-thanksgiving-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Almost certainly not.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fauci evidently did not feel compelled to tell the truth to lawmakers \u2014 or at least not the same \u201ctruth\u201d he recorded in his diary. So he gave Congress what, by any measure, was an obscenely high estimate for the actual COVID-19 death rate.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result, direct or indirect, countless Americans lost their loved ones and never got a chance to say goodbye. Millions of schoolchildren and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >young adults lost irreplaceable learning time<\/a> in their early education \u2014 a loss that\u2019s going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/covid-hangover-new-research-suggests-schools-havent-recovered-lockdowns-academic-numbers-devastating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep showing up<\/a> in the country far into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Countless adults lost jobs and wages in an economically devastating slowdown manufactured in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>And one way or another, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his willful manipulations of the truth were behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers might not lie, but, judging by his own diary, Anthony Fauci clearly did.<\/p>\n<p>And no matter how much he invokes the Fifth Amendment, or stonewalls the American people and their lawmakers, he\u2019s going to be branded as guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Because his own words have convicted him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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A key lesson from ongoing disclosures about the government\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its former leader, Anthony Fauci, is that he has sometimes misrepresented data. Last week, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate appearance, yet his own words reveal inconsistencies. As reported by Just the News on Sunday, Fauci estimated in a diary entry that COVID-19\u2019s mortality rate was around 0.2-0.3%, based on a conversation with CDC Director Tom Frieden in early 2020. However, just weeks later, under oath before Congress, Fauci claimed the death rate was about 1%, significantly higher than his private estimate-implying he publicly overstated the danger of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s diary indicates he privately believed COVID\u2019s fatality rate to be roughly 0.2-0.3%. Yet in sworn testimony shortly afterward, he described it as ten times more lethal than seasonal flu-about 1%. For context: seasonal flu typically has a mortality rate near 0.1%. In March 2020, Fauci told Congress that if all cases were counted-including mild or asymptomatic ones-the death rate might be around 1%, making COVID roughly ten times deadlier than flu.<\/p>\n<p>This discrepancy suggests Fauci presented one version publicly while privately holding different beliefs-a pattern that raises questions about transparency and motives during a critical period for public health policy. In December 2020, Fauci admitted to changing his public stance on herd immunity thresholds based on polling data-initially suggesting higher vaccination rates were needed before herd immunity could be achieved but then lowering those estimates as surveys indicated more Americans would accept vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>These admissions imply Fauci was willing to adjust or even distort information to serve an agenda-possibly influenced by political or institutional pressures rather than strict scientific objectivity. Had he honestly conveyed that COVID-19 might be only two or three times as deadly as seasonal flu rather than ten times worse-and communicated this transparently-the response measures might have been less severe and prolonged.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, these revelations cast doubt on whether Fauci prioritized truth over influence during one of America\u2019s most challenging crises. His own recorded words suggest deliberate misrepresentation at key moments-contributing to policies and societal impacts affecting millions-from economic hardship and lost education opportunities to unnecessary loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>While numbers themselves don\u2019t lie, their interpretation can be manipulated-as evidenced by Fauci\u2019s documented statements-and such actions have profound consequences for public trust and policy outcomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Anthony-Fauci-diary-stats.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,4127,22851,83631,4434],"class_list":["post-2639853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-covid","tag-diary","tag-fatality-rate","tag-fauci"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Anthony-Fauci-diary-stats.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639857,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639853\/revisions\/2639857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}