“Even back to the 1918 Spanish Flu, it was shown in a paper written by Fauci that most of the deaths that occurred during the Spanish flu, were not the Spanish flu — the virus — it was actually secondary infections due to wearing those stupid cotton masks,” a man claims in a video clip shared on Instagram. “So people need to be aware.”
The paper actually didn’t mention masks at all.
Fauci and two NIAID colleagues
published the 2008 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, examining lung tissue from autopsies and other data and concluding that “the majority of deaths in the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic likely resulted directly from secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory-tract bacteria.”
But that doesn’t mean the flu wasn’t to blame.
In
describing the study’s findings in 2008, the National Institute of Health noted that “most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection.”
It added: “The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs.”