Another analysis
The title of this September 2020 article by Len Cabrera is "Mistake or Manipulation." An initial point made was: "A review of the early events mentioned in Dr. Brown's paper and the lack of any corrections to the record suggest that the misstatement [by Fauci] before Congress was not a mistake." If not a mistake, then it was intentional.
This point was dead on: "In his testimony, Dr. Fauci claimed the mortality of flu was 0.1% and that the case fatality rate of COVID was 3% but could be as low as 1% with asymptomatic cases. This is an apples-to-oranges comparison of the flu's infection fatality rate (IFR) to COVID-19's case fatality rate (CFR)."
And this critical point was made: "All cases are infections, but not all infections are confirmed cases, so the number of infections always exceeds the number of cases, making IFR less than CFR." In other words, if the number of deaths is the same, then a lower denominator for calculating CFR compared to that for getting the IFR results in a higher number for CFR.
Are we to believe that the esteemed Fauci did not know this? Or is it reasonable to conclude that Fauci knew exactly what he was doing, namely using some simple data to create a pandemic crisis that required massive authoritarian government actions? Fauci set the stage for his wait-for-the-vaccine pandemic strategy that he sold to President Trump. This required that the government establish blocks to wide use of the safe, cheap, effective and FDA approved generic medicines already found to cure COVID in early 2020, namely ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Details about these early treatment protocols are given in Pandemic Blunder.
Here is another point made: "A careful viewing of the testimony suggests the line [COVID being 10 times worse than flu] was not a mistake. Dr. Fauci was specifically asked if COVID was less lethal than H1N1 or SARS. Rather than refer to his own NEJM article saying SARS had a case fatality rate of 9-10% (3 to 10 times worse than COVID), Dr. Fauci said, "Absolutely not" the 2009 pandemic of H1N1 was even less lethal than regular flu" this is a really serious problem that we have to take seriously." He repeated that COVID's "mortality is 10 times that [of influenza]" and concluded with, "We have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this."
This also was a prescient view: "This was a perfect series of switches: IFR to CFR, voluntary isolation for the sick to mandatory isolation for everyone, two weeks to flatten the curve to indefinite lockdown until there's a vaccine. (If you think it will be voluntary, you're not paying attention.)"
Add this to the quest for truth: "A study in France looked at all-cause mortality data from 1946 to 2020 and concluded that 'SARS-CoV-2 is not an unusually virulent viral respiratory disease pathogen" because there is no significant increase in mortality. Of the deaths in 2020, the study said, 'unprecedented strict mass quarantine and isolation of both sick and healthy elderly people, together and separately, killed many of them.'"
Here is the article's correct conclusion: "Sadly, many politicians were duped and went along with the recommendations for lockdowns and masks that followed from Dr. Fauci's 10-times-deadlier testimony. Don't expect them to admit their mistakes, either. Perhaps the only thing harder for a politician than telling the whole truth is admitting a mistake."
What is the truth?
If you listen to many experts, you hear this truth based on CDC data: 99.8 or 99.9 percent of people across all ages who get infected by COVID do not die. That means that the IFR overall is .001 or .002. In other words, not so terribly worse than the flu IFR, but it does vary with age.
In September 2020 these CDC age related data were reported:
Updated survival rates and IFR by age group:
0-19: 99.997%, IFR .003%
20-49: 99.98%, IFR .02%
50-69: 99.5%, IFR .5%
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