Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds

Did Anthony Fauci really get a text from Joan Baez, as his private diary suggests, wishing him a “happy fucking birthday” in the midst of the pandemic? Until now, the answer to that question has remained blessedly unclear.

But soon we may have access to the former National Institutes of Health official’s phone.

Senator Ron Johnson announced this week that he’d retrieved tens of thousands of messages and hundreds of voicemails from Fauci’s government-issued device and made them fully searchable.

In the meantime, though, Johnson has shared just a single set of texts: a Fauci group chat that he considered so explosive in its implications that it had to be released forthwith.

“This is a blockbuster revelation,” the senator said on Tuesday.

The public had to know.

The texts in question were from a short exchange that Fauci had with two other public-health officials—former U.S.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky—in January 2021.

Murthy had asked whether either of them knew of “any data or theoretical reason” why an expectant mother might choose to vaccinate early versus late in pregnancy.

Walensky answered no, that this was all “data free.” Fauci agreed, but a couple of hours later, he followed up.

After asking around, he’d heard about a theoretical concern: A second dose of the vaccine could lead to fever and cytokine storm—an overactivation of the immune system, also linked to COVID itself—which in turn might lead to early-term miscarriage.

In an interview that Fauci gave just one week later, he alluded to the need for balanced thinking on vaccination during pregnancy, given the lack of clinical-trial data.

But he noted that thousands of expectant mothers had already gotten shots by then, and no issues had arisen.

“We’ve got to be careful,” he said, but “I would rather take my chances with a vaccine than getting infected while I’m pregnant.” Fauci’s critics now assert that this was tantamount to murder.