" But Fauci and other public health experts rapidly changed course. They intentionally obscured the fact that the coronavirus posed only a tiny risk to healthy people under fifty. On March 18, Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the federal coronavirus task force, cited “concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill.” Fauci made a similar comment a week later.

Why? A March 22 paper from a SAGE subcommittee—kept hidden from the public at the time, but released months later—offered an answer. Only by pretending the virus posed a significant risk to everyone could governments ensure the public would accept lockdowns. "

― , Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives