On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
then-NIAID director
43 things Anthony Fauci said, verbatim, from June 20, 2026 to August 14, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“There is this misperception out there that we need to deal with that mRNA somehow can ‘get into your genes.’ When the misperception gets extended to an early developing fetus, the anxiety heightens,”
on fears that mRNA vaccines alter genes, extended to pregnant women
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“We’ve got 34,000 texts to go through. I thought we better release this one right away because it impacts public health today. It impacts informed consent as more pregnant women may line up now for the mRNA flu vaccine that’s been approved.”
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“Agree with Rochelle. There are no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred. Yet, some people (even female health care professionals) feel concerned about injecting a ‘genetic’ vaccine very early in pregnancy,”
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“No issues have arisen. The FDA and the ACIP [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] and the ACOG [American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists] are all permissive for pregnant women to have a choice. Animal tox studies did not raise any red flags.”
on regulators' clearance of Covid vaccine use in pregnancy despite miscarriage concerns
The Federalist Texts: Fauci And Friends Covered Up Concerns About The Covid Vax And Miscarriages ›
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“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the second dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester”
Breitbart News Damning Fauci Texts Revealed: Admits Second Coronavirus Jab 'Theoretically Could Be Associated with Miscarriage' ›
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“[FDA] have found thus far and we have to be careful but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women.”
Breitbart News Damning Fauci Texts Revealed: Admits Second Coronavirus Jab 'Theoretically Could Be Associated with Miscarriage' ›
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“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
Washington Examiner First batch of COVID-era Fauci texts shows private concerns about vaccination while pregnant ›
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“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the second dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,”
on Fauci's private texts about coronavirus vaccine side effects and miscarriage risk
Breitbart News Damning Fauci Texts Revealed: Admits Second Coronavirus Jab 'Theoretically Could Be Associated with Miscarriage' ›
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“This is going to take time, but when my staff saw this, I mean, to me, this immediately impacts public safety, immediately impacts informed consent,”
on Fauci's texts about vaccine safety oversight and informed consent
Fox News Fauci in the hot seat as GOP senator tears into 'truly sick' vaccine texts: 'Tip of the iceberg' ›
On the claim ledger Open
“There's no indication whatsoever that there's any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn't vaccinated”
on Fauci's private texts about miscarriage before his public vaccine safety comments
Washington Examiner Fauci's phone gives up a January 2021 text about miscarriage, nine days before he told the public there were no red flags ›
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“We keep a completely open mind as to what the origin is,”
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“we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,”
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“What we're alleging is that gain-of-function research was going on in that lab and NIH funded it.”
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“Having said that, if you look at the examination by highly qualified international scientists with no political agendas, they've published in peer reviewed journals, the best of the peer reviewed journals, that all the accumulated evidence … is quite strong that this is a natural occurrence.”
CBS News What Fauci has said about COVID origins, gain-of-function research ›
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“Just conspiracy theories,”
Truthdig The Fauci Hearings: Fair Questions, Wrong Approach ›
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“was very upset that none of the moderate Republicans were actually speaking out on my behalf and were distancing themselves from all of this terrible, slanderous behavior against me”
on Fauci saying moderate Republicans failed to defend him from attacks
Atlanta Black Star ‘Hopeless Idiot!’: Barack Obama Takes Off the Gloves in Private Trump Rant That Was Never Supposed to See the Light of Day — and Trump Is Going to Hate Every Word ›
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“had a similar call with Ann O’Leary, the COS of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. Ann said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the Governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants.”
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“Increased testing does not cause cases. When you increase testing you will of course pick up asymptomatics whom you might otherwise not notice. However, when you have increased percent positives and increased hospitalization, and increased deaths, that means that there are truly more cases.”
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“I called Peter Marks a couple of days ago (together with Collins and Lane) and explained that we would back him if he holds the line. He called the AZ package ‘a hot mess’ and definitely not in shape for an EUA drive on Times Square.”
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“This is his way of backing out of a failure and trying to get an ‘October Surprise.’ Heads up for him trying to push an early approval of vaccine or even influencing the decision about convalescent sera, which actually do not look too good right now.”
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“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something — anything — that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words — quote — ‘behind bars,’”
on Fauci accusing the committee of trying to trap him into incriminating remarks
NBC News Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment right not to testify at Covid hearing ›
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“The FDA career scientists are hesitant to grant EUAs to Lilly’s and Regeneron’s mAb based on the current data. Alex Azar is really pushing them and furious because he thinks FDA is ‘slowwalking’ the process so as not to have it out before the election in 5 days,”
on FDA hesitancy over antibody drug authorizations before the election
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“It now appears using epidata and genomic data that the first infection was in early December, was not connected to the market”
on evidence undercutting Fauci's public claim the market was the pandemic's source
National Review Why Anthony Fauci Never Embodied “Science” ›
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“The public adulation of me has been amazing with every young intern as well as seasoned veteran in the WH coming over to me congratulating me and thanking me for my work and even asking for selfies.”
on Fauci's diary entry describing adulation from staff over his pandemic response
CBN News Wall Street Journal Weighs in After Rand Paul Exposes Fauci Diaries: 'His Advice Was Often Wrong' ›
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“Leslie Dach had contacted Barack Obama to ask him to give me a call to see what he could do to counter the slanderous lies there have been coming from the far right press, extreme right elements in society, and even several members of the Senate and the House.”
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“The mortality for seasonal flu is 0.1. The mortality for this is about two, two and a half percent. It’s probably lower than that. It’s probably closer to one. But even if it’s one, it’s ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu. You got to make sure that people understand,”
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“They are really criticizing science because I represent science.”
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“He said that he would base this on my recommendation. I had a similar call with Ann O’Leary, the COS of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. Ann said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the Governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants.”
The Federalist Fauci’s Diary Shows 5 Major Covid Lies He Told The American Public ›
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“I spoke with Bill de Blasio (Mayor – NYC) and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools (he had already decided based on what I was saying on TV). I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in NYC,”
on Fauci's account of persuading NYC's mayor to close schools, bars and restaurants
The Federalist Fauci’s Diary Shows 5 Major Covid Lies He Told The American Public ›
On the claim ledger Open
“There was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion”
on Fauci's diary entry showing scientists disagreed on whether the coronavirus was deliberately made
Breitbart News Rand Paul releases 1,141 pages of Fauci's diary, and by Monday the file is gone ›
On the claim ledger Open
“Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.”
NPR Rand Paul releases 1,141 pages of Fauci's diary, and by Monday the file is gone ›
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“Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt me since I am so busy … seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship,”
The Daily Wire New Fauci Diaries Reveal Celebrity Obsession At Height Of COVID Crisis ›
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“He walked into a clinical with fever and respiratory sxs and was smart enough to mention that he just came from Wuhan.”
The Daily Wire Fauci Already Imagined Himself As Trump’s Adversary In January 2020 ›
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“briefed by intelligence agencies about possibilities of there being activities going on in different laboratories”
on Fauci being briefed by intelligence agencies about possible lab activity tied to Covid origins
The Federalist New Docs: Fauci Colluded With Intel Agencies On Covid Cover-Up And Then Lied To Congress About It ›
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“Diana is the current Chair of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee and if the GOP wins the House, she will be the ranking minority member,”
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“(Fauci) can take the Fifth if he thinks that this could, in fact, incriminate him in with respect to criminal conduct,”
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“is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote,”
PBS NewsHour WATCH LIVE: Sen. Paul holds contempt vote after Fauci invokes 5th Amendment ›
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“his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote”
Associated Press Senate panel to vote on holding Fauci in contempt of Congress ›
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“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, ‘behind bars,’ unquote,”
on being summoned before a congressional committee after 111 Fifth Amendment pleas
Fox News Reporter's Notebook: Why Fauci's 111 Fifth Amendment pleas could end up before the courts ›
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“the pardon would seem to cover Fauci’s previous congressional testimony prior to January 19, 2025. Thus, he can’t assert the 5th based on the fact that he may be asked questions that reveal his prior testimony as false (or at least subject to such a charge).”
on whether Fauci's pardon shields him from charges over prior congressional testimony
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“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something - anything - that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'”
on Fauci accusing the senator of seeking his imprisonment
BBC News Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during tense US Senate hearing about Covid origins ›
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“They cannot afford it. They are struggling. We will just put it on a tab,”
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“The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country”
on a diary entry describing Fauci's own fame at the height of Covid deaths
The American Conservative The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci ›
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