Dr. Anthony Fauci privately calculated that COVID-19 had a significantly lower fatality rate than what he told Congress a month later at the outset of the pandemic.

On March 11, 2020, the day that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Fauci testified under oath that the death rate of coronavirus patients was 3%, up from an initial 2%.

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