Fauci's private pandemic emails reveal responses to censorship rumors

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical adviser, responded to dozens of emails from fellow medical professionals who thought he was being censored under the Trump administration.

Buzzfeed News obtained Fauci’s emails from between January and June 2020 — when COVID-19 was in its early stages and proven to be deadly — and they showed that people in his inbox were wondering if he was “muzzled.”

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, Buzzfeed observed more than 3,200 pages of emails, one of which came from an unidentified woman dated on Feb. 28, 2020, who asked if then-Vice President Mike Pence “has ordered you to not inform the public about Coronavirus without approval. This is quite terrifying, especially since Trump has already shown his desire to spread false or incomplete information about this public health crisis.”