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“Anthony Fauci received $1,000,000 in compensation during the period when 1,000,000 people in the United States died from COVID-19.”
The evidence does not support the claim as stated. Fauci did not earn $1 million in federal salary, and the closest documented figure was a nominal $1 million prize awarded in February 2021, before the United States reached 1 million COVID-19 deaths in May 2022; his personal receipt was reportedly about $900,000 after a scholarship set-aside. Reaching $1 million requires mixing different income categories or broader time periods.
“David Morren, a senior National Institutes of Health scientist and advisor to Anthony Fauci, has been arrested and formally indicted on charges related to a COVID-19 origin cover-up, including alleged unlawful destruction of federal records, conspiracy to evade the Freedom of Information Act, and making false statements to Congress.”
The evidence supports that David Morens was indicted on records-handling and FOIA-evasion-related charges tied to pandemic-era communications. But the claim materially overstates the case: the indictment is not described in authoritative reporting as a formal COVID-19 origins cover-up, the false-statement allegation was not to Congress, and the cited evidence does not establish that he was arrested. Those errors change the practical meaning of the claim.