Many might expect the private reflections of the nation’s most influential public health official to be dominated by public health challenges. Instead, amid meetings, phone calls and official duties, Fauci repeatedly paused to catalogue glowing newspaper profiles and celebrity praise.
He misled the public for years about lockdowns, the lab leak, and his political ideology. And he got away with all of it, thanks to the protection of his friends in the media and Biden. His critics knew all of it.
Chairman Rand Paul has been collecting and releasing documents as part of the ongoing (what is it now, 6 bloody years?) investigation into SARS-2 origins. It is “largely accepted” that SARS-2 is of natural origin.
The FDA’s first EUA for a Covid-19 vaccine rested on its determination that the benefits of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine outweighed its risks. Yet the trial report did not bring those together within a common framework. I did—and what I found was startling.