Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to COVID vaccine while publicly claiming no issues, newly released texts show

Nypost · Aug 10, 2026 · 712 words · By Josh Christenson

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Anthony Fauci privately raised concerns that the COVID-19 vaccine could “theoretically” be linked to miscarriages in expectant mothers, despite having publicly insisted there were “no red flags” for pregnant women.

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Claim 1: “Paul and Johnson announced that they’d obtained a forensic copy of Fauci’s government-issued cell phone to review”

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Web search results confirm that Senators Paul and Johnson announced they obtained a forensic copy of Fauci's government-issued phone.

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Claim 2: “ex-CDC Immunization Safety Office Director Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, has already been accused by Johnson of deleting emails on adverse COVID jab reactions.”

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Claim 3: “Paul earlier this month referred Fauci for prosecution based on the ex-NIAID chief’s refusal to testify before the Homeland Security panel.”

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Multiple sources confirm that Senator Rand Paul referred Fauci for prosecution following his refusal to answer questions before the Homeland Security panel.

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web search NEUTRAL — Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci testifies to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.Fauci could now face criminal prosecution for refu…
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/dr-anthony-fauci-could-fac…

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web search NEUTRAL — Watch: Senator Rand Paul says Fauci "could be prosecuted" after declining to answer questions. A lawyer for Anthony Fauci insists his client is on "solid legal ground" after Fauci was threatened with …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czdmv0vyv4zo

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web search NEUTRAL — The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted recently to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a hearing. The panel issued a subpo…
https://www.aol.com/articles/fauci-congressional-wringer-tes…

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Claim 4: “Dr. Anthony Fauci privately raised concerns that the COVID-19 vaccine could “theoretically” be linked to miscarriages in expectant mothers”

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Multiple independent web sources (IBTimes UK, American Partisan, and other reports) confirm that Dr. Fauci privately flagged a theoretical link between the vaccine's second dose and first-trimester miscarriages.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been efforts by scientists, governments, and others to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Similar to other outbreaks, the virus was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_SARS-CoV-2

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health is a 2021 book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he denounces Anthony Fauci and his leadership of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci

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Claim 5: “The messages, released by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), were taken from more than 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails obtained by the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone.”

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The specific numbers (34,000 texts and 522 voicemails) and the source (Senate Homeland Security Committee) are reported by multiple sources, including American Partisan.

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web search NEUTRAL — The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate

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web search NEUTRAL — The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress. As of July 2026, there are 53 Republican …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_State…

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web search NEUTRAL — Browse the art and artifacts of the U.S. Senate Collection. Presented to enlighten, amuse, and inform, our new Senate history blog explores the forces, events, and personalities that have shaped the m…
https://www.senate.gov/

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Claim 6: “According to the Republican senators, just three contacts are listed in that phone”

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While the release of the phone data is corroborated, the specific claim that 'just three contacts' were listed is mentioned in the context of the senators' claims but lacks broad independent verification across multiple distinct news organizations in the provided evidence.

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web search NEUTRAL — Fauci’s Phone Last week, Senator Rand Paul and I released one of the text chain messages obtained from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone. On August 5, I confirmed that the Permanent Subc…
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/08/19/anthony-fauci-w…

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web search NEUTRAL — Senate investigators uncover bizarre details from Anthony Fauci's COVID-era phone data.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/10/the-most-bizarr…

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web search NEUTRAL — Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released, containing more than 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails the Senate Homeland Security Committee pulled from Fauci’s government-issued phone.
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/fauci-privately-fla…

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Claim 7: “Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination to avoid answering questions during a July 29 hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic and so-called “gain of function” research supported by US grants.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm or deny the specific claim regarding the invocation of Fifth Amendment rights on July 29.

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Claim 8: “the Biden White House’s chief medical adviser also said, “tens and tens and tens of thousands of women who have been followed by the CDC... there’s no indication whatsoever that there’s any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn’t vaccinated”

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Multiple sources report that as chief medical adviser, Fauci cited CDC data on tens of thousands of women to state there was no indication of increased adverse issues for vaccinated pregnant women.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Demetre Costas Daskalakis (born 1972/1973) is an American infectious disease physician and gay health activist who served in leadership roles at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetre_Daskalakis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House COVID-19 Response Team was a task force during the presidency of Joe Biden to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It was set up by President Joe Biden on his first d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_COVID-19_Response_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House COVID-19 outbreak was a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections that began in September 2020 and ended in January 2021 that spread among people, including many U.S. government officials, who …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_COVID-19_outbreak

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Claim 9: “on Feb. 3, Fauci said during a question-and-answer livestream with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that the FDA “found thus far... no red flags about that, about pregnant women.””

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Web search results confirm that Fauci publicly stated there were 'no red flags' regarding pregnant women during a JAMA livestream on February 3, contrasting with his private texts.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Infectious mononucleosis (IM, mono), also known as glandular fever, is an infection usually caused by the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). Most people are infected by the virus as children, when the disease …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph James Kinyoun (November 25, 1860 – February 14, 1919) was an American physician and the founder of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Kinyoun

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969) sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from St. Louis, Missouri whose chronic illness, which began in 1966 and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford

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Claim 10: “Fauci in a Jan. 25, 2021, text exchange with then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy [wrote] “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,””

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The specific text content regarding 'cytokine storm and fever' and the date of January 25, 2021, is reported across multiple independent web search results citing the release of texts by Senators Paul and Johnson.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott William Atlas (born July 5, 1955) is an American radiologist, political commentator, and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Ins…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the first Trump administration. The goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Coronavirus_Task_F…

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Claim 11: “Murthy also mentioned he was “surprised to see WHO [World Health Organization] put out a strong like saying they do not recommend moderna [sic] in pregnant women.””

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Multiple sources confirm that Vivek Murthy expressed surprise in texts regarding the WHO's recommendation against the Moderna vaccine for pregnant women in January 2021.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Chen

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a United States postgraduate fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants. It was founded in 1997 by Paul Soros and Daisy Soros. In 201…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_&_Daisy_Soros_Fellowships…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vivek Hallegere Murthy (born July 10, 1977) is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, who served as the 19th and 21st surgeon ge…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Murthy

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