‘Delete This After You Read It’: Fauci Ordered Staff To Cover Up Email Defending COVID Lockdowns

Newly-released emails suggest that Dr. Anthony Fauci went out of his way to hide information during the COVID-19 pandemic — and then lied about doing so when questioned about it by members of Congress.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) shared screenshots of two separate emails, both of which contained information that Fauci apparently did not want to see the light of day — in both cases, Fauci had clearly instructed the recipient to “delete” the message once it had been read. Paul also shared a copy of a letter addressed to Fauci on September 9, referencing the emails in conjunction with his prior testimony — during which he claimed several times that he had not attempted to hide or delete any relevant information regarding the pandemic from Congress — and calling for him to testify again.

“Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to ‘delete this after you read it’ — dating back to Feb. 2020,” Paul wrote. “He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul.”

????BREAKING: Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to “delete this after you read it”—dating back to Feb. 2020.

He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul. pic.twitter.com/kHrUDjfRXI

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) September 10, 2025

Paul included in the letter a list of documents that Fauci, 84, was to provide within two weeks, no later than 5 pm on September 23. In addition to emails, attachments, calls, texts, and voicemails, Paul requested all telephone numbers, messaging app usernames, and email addresses — whether government or private — that Fauci used between January 1, 2018, and January 1, 2023.

He followed the letter with additional X posts showing the emails in question.

“Freshly released emails expose another layer of the Fauci COVID Coverup. In April 2020, his staff flagged my post on NYC’s soaring death rate. Fauci’s reply? Call me ‘full of s**t,’ spin the numbers, and order your staff to ‘delete this after you read it.’ He knew the reckoning was eventually coming.”

The coverup began while the virus was barely on America’s radar. Just one day after the Feb. 1, 2020 Proximal Origins call, Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar plotted how to “get ahead of the science and the narrative” under WHO.

Fauci ended with: “Please delete this… pic.twitter.com/lAVuPB8mZJ

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) September 10, 2025

“The coverup began while the virus was barely on America’s radar,” Paul wrote on X. “Just one day after the Feb. 1, 2020 Proximal Origins call, Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar plotted how to ‘get ahead of the science and the narrative’ under WHO. Fauci ended with: ‘Please delete this after you read it.'”