Dr. Anthony Fauci was portrayed as a brave truth teller during the pandemic.
But what really happened could only be buried for so long.
And secret emails confirmed one big lie Anthony Fauci told the public.
Fauci Called Israeli Natural Immunity Study "Rather Impressive" While Pushing Biden Administration COVID Vaccine Mandates
Newly released emails expose Anthony Fauci as a fraud who knew natural immunity worked better than vaccines but lied to the public anyway.
Freedom of Information Act documents obtained by Protect the Public's Trust show Fauci privately admitting natural immunity from COVID infection was "rather impressive" and "possibly likely" better than vaccination.
While he wrote those words to his colleagues, Fauci stood in front of cameras telling Americans they needed vaccines even if they'd already recovered from COVID.
Israeli researchers studied nearly 800,000 people and found something Fauci didn't want Americans to know: natural immunity crushed Pfizer's vaccine by 13 times against reinfection.
Against symptomatic COVID, natural immunity won by 27 times.
Fauci sent emails praising this research to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, NIH Director Francis Collins, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in August 2021.
"It is conceivable and possibly likely" that recovery from "serious systemic infection" provides better protection than full vaccination, Fauci admitted to the people running America's COVID response.
Then he went on television and told you the exact opposite.
Mandates forcing millions of Americans to get vaccinated came just weeks after Fauci wrote those emails.
NIH Director Francis Collins Panicked When Israeli Study Data Destroyed Pfizer Vaccine Narrative
Francis Collins saw the Israeli study and immediately understood it demolished everything they'd been telling Americans.
The NIH director called the findings "somewhat puzzling" because they seemed "well-designed" but wrecked his preferred story.
"Most of us have been saying up until now that vaccines are actually better for providing immunity – what does the overall synthesis of the data now say?" Collins wrote.
They'd been lying to the public for months and this massive study just proved them wrong.
John Brooks, the CDC's Covid Response Chief Medical Officer, admitted the agency had nothing to back up what they'd been telling Americans for months.
He admitted his response was "not a meta-analysis" and questioned whether they had "enough data of the same type yet to embark on a meta-analysis."
So the CDC promoted a garbage study of a few hundred Kentuckians that supposedly showed vaccination reduced reinfection more than natural recovery.
Then-medical professor Marty Makary, now FDA Commissioner under Trump, destroyed them on Fox News for "fishing" for studies to justify policies they'd already decided on.
Protect the Public's Trust filed a scientific integrity complaint because the CDC lied in their press release headline.
The headline claimed vaccination offered "higher protection" than previous infection when that's not what the study showed.
Fauci Rejected Natural Immunity Exemption To Biden Vaccine Mandate Despite Expert Advice
Dr. Paul Offit revealed that Biden administration officials met with immunology experts in 2021 to discuss allowing natural immunity as an exemption to vaccine mandates.
"We all basically agreed" on the exemption, Offit said.
But Fauci and his crew rejected it anyway for "bureaucratic reasons."
They couldn't figure out how to verify natural immunity, so they just forced vaccines on everyone instead.
Offit later disclosed that Fauci told him at a 2023 meeting they didn't target high-risk groups because that was too "nuanced."
Some people at high risk wouldn't get vaccinated unless everyone was forced to do it, Fauci explained.
Fauci admitted he pushed vaccine mandates on healthy people who didn't need them because he thought that was the only way to trick high-risk people into getting shots.
CDC's John Brooks knew natural immunity lasted longer than vaccination but told senior officials to claim "we don't know how much longer and how well infection-induced immunity may protect."
That's a lie based on absence of evidence when the evidence they had pointed the opposite direction.
One Israeli booster study Brooks cited to justify continued vaccination was based on "FOUR SUBJECTS only."
He admitted that in all caps in his email.
That's the quality of science Fauci used to mandate vaccines for millions of Americans.
The Emails Prove Fauci Chose His Agenda Over Public Health
Michael Chamberlain, Director of Protect the Public's Trust, said the emails prove the public health bureaucracy needed "a thorough housecleaning."
Federal officials tried to "bury what didn't fit their preferred narrative," Chamberlain said.
Francis Collins' private emails show he knew natural immunity deserved serious consideration.
But publicly, Collins led a crusade to destroy scientists who opposed one-size-fits-all COVID restrictions.
Two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration that Collins tried to suppress now serve in the Trump administration.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees the agencies that buried this evidence.
The Trump administration has already slashed the CDC's vaccine schedule and promoted natural immunity over blanket vaccination recommendations.
Anthony Fauci stood in front of cameras for two years positioning himself as the brave scientist telling hard truths.
Anyone who questioned his recommendations got attacked as anti-science.
Fauci compared himself to science itself, saying "attacks on me are attacks on science."
The whole time, Fauci knew natural immunity worked better than vaccines for people who'd recovered from COVID.
But he pushed mandates forcing those people to get vaccinated anyway.
Expert advice about natural immunity exemptions? Rejected because verifying prior infection was bureaucratically inconvenient.
Nuanced, targeted approaches? Dismissed because Fauci didn't trust Americans to understand risk.
Fauci's priority wasn't public health.
His priority was maintaining his narrative and his control over COVID policy.
Millions of Americans who'd recovered from COVID were forced to get vaccinated based on lies Fauci knew were lies.
Those emails sit in federal records now as proof of his deception.
Every time Fauci claimed to follow the science, he was following his own agenda.
The science said natural immunity worked.
Fauci said get vaccinated anyway.
Sources:
- Greg Piper, "Emails show Fauci, Collins plotting to circumvent 'impressive' data for COVID natural immunity," Just the News, January 18, 2026.
- Paul Offit podcast comments on natural immunity meeting, 2021-2024.
- Israeli natural immunity study, Science, August 2021.
- CDC Kentucky study, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2021.
- Protect the Public's Trust FOIA request and scientific integrity complaint.
