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尤特迈尔援引兰德·保罗披露的信息称，福西私下估算的新冠死亡率远低于其公开作证时的说法
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维，福克斯新闻
福西在参议院听证会援引第五修正案，面临藐视国会投票
安东尼·福西博士在一场参议院听证会中超过100次援引第五修正案权利，导致参议员兰德·保罗指控其撒谎并销毁与新冠疫情相关的公共记录。保罗呼吁对福西启动藐视国会程序。
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佛罗里达州总检察长詹姆斯·尤特迈尔表示，在福西做出援引第五修正案权利、拒绝在周三国会听证会上回答任何问题的爆炸性决定后，他将对美国前国家过敏和传染病研究所（NIAID）所长安东尼·福西博士展开调查。
“福西对国会缺乏坦诚，令人难以置信。我的办公室正在对福西博士展开调查。是时候查清新冠疫情期间发生的真相了，”尤特迈尔在周三的X平台帖子中写道。
尤特迈尔在接受福克斯新闻数字频道独家采访时进一步解释了他的决定。
福西“毫无法律依据”援引第五修正案，批评人士愤怒并要求提起藐视指控
詹姆斯·尤特迈尔2025年9月3日在华盛顿特区举行的全国保守派大会上发言（多米尼克·格温 / 中东图片社/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“鉴于参议员兰德·保罗曝光的最新报道，我们将调查安东尼·福西可能违反佛罗里达州法律的所有行为，”尤特迈尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“我们的调查将聚焦于福西知晓什么、何时知晓，以及他如何误导美国民众。我们将审查他的欺骗行为可能对佛罗里达州民众造成的人身和经济损害，并根据州法律确定其行为是否使其承担法律责任，”尤特迈尔的声明总结道。
尤特迈尔援引了参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗公布的信息，这些信息披露了福西在NIAID任职期间在政府电脑上撰写的内部笔记。
福西新披露的新冠日记揭示：随着疫情死亡人数上升，他痴迷于名望
前美国国立卫生研究院所长安东尼·福西在2026年7月29日华盛顿特区参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会听证会上听取发言。福西拒绝回答问题，援引了第五修正案权利（安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社）
这些被保罗和其他人称为福西“日记”的内部笔记显示，与他私下记录的内容相比，福西公开夸大了新冠死亡率。
“前疾控中心主任汤姆·弗里登今早致电给我，我们讨论了疫情的多个方面，”福西在2020年2月8日写道。
“他和我看法一致，认为此次疫情的传播性类似于严重流感，且实际感染人数远高于34867人（上文提及的数字），因此病死率（CFR）更接近0.2%至0.3%，而非2.0%，”福西的日记条目最后写道。
然而，一个月后的2020年3月11日，福西在众议院监督委员会的国会作证中称死亡率为1%。
“我认为，如果将所有轻症或无症状感染病例计算在内，死亡率可能会降至1%左右，这意味着其致命性是季节性流感的10倍，”他作证说。
安东尼·福西拒绝在参议院委员会听证会上就其在美国新冠疫情应对中的角色作证，援引了第五修正案权利（亚历克斯·弗罗布莱夫斯基/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社；阿尔·德拉莫/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
当周三被传唤至参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会就这些爆料作证时，福西行使了第五修正案权利，111次拒绝回答议员的问题。
尤特迈尔并非唯一一位在这些爆料曝光后抨击这位前新冠疫情协调官的共和党人。
得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹周三表示，尽管获得了总统赦免，福西仍应因拒绝回答问题而被判处国会藐视罪。
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“我认为安东尼·福西几十年来一直藐视国会和美国民众，”他说。“他的日记表明，他一次又一次故意对美国民众撒谎。”
就保罗而言，他表示其委员会将于下周就是否对福西启动藐视程序进行投票。
Florida AG threatens Fauci investigation after Senate hearing
July 30, 2026 12:59pm EDT / Fox News
Uthmeier cited revelations from Rand Paul showing Fauci privately estimated a far lower COVID death rate than he testified
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
Fauci pleads Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing, faces contempt vote
Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment over 100 times in a Senate hearing, leading Senator Rand Paul to accuse him of lying and destroying public records related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paul advocates for holding Fauci in contempt of Congress.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he will be opening up an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, following Fauci’s explosive decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right and not answer any questions during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable. My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID,” Uthmeier wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
Uthmeier expanded on his decision in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.
FAUCI PLEADS FIFTH WITH ‘ZERO LEGAL JUSTIFICATION’ AS CRITICS ERUPT AND DEMAND CONTEMPT CHARGES
James Uthmeier spoke at the National Conservative Convention on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
“In light of recent reports exposed by Senator Rand Paul, we will investigate any and all potential violations of Florida law involving Anthony Fauci,” Uthmeier told Fox News Digital.
“Our inquiry will focus on what Fauci knew, when he knew it, and how he misled the American people. We will examine the physical and monetary harms to Floridians that may have resulted from his deceptions and determine whether his conduct exposes him to liability under state law,” Uthmeier’s statement concluded.
Uthmeier cited revelations published by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which revealed internal notes Fauci wrote on government computers during his time at NIAID.
FAUCI’S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTED
Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, asserting his Fifth Amendment right.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The internal notes, which Paul and others have taken to referring to as Fauci’s “diary,” suggest Fauci appeared to publicly overstate the death rate from COVID-19 compared to what he wrote privately.
“Former CDC Director Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,” Fauci wrote on Feb. 8, 2020.
“He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,” Fauci’s entry concluded.
However, a month later, in congressional testimony to the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, Fauci pegged the mortality rate at 1%.
“I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around 1%, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,” he testified.
Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the U.S. response to COVID-19, invoking his Fifth Amendment right.(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
When called to testify on the revelations before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Fauci exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer legislators’ questions 111 times.
Uthmeier is not the only Republican to take aim at the former COVID czar in light of the revelations.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Wednesday that Fauci should be held in congressional contempt for refusing to answer questions despite receiving a presidential pardon.
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“I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades,” he said. “His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again.”
Paul, for his part, said his committee will vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt next week.
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