There were also instances when what Fauci wrote privately synched with his public comments – and times when it didn’t. In an email exchange with the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fauci struck a collegial tone. “We’ll get through this together,” he wrote in response to the Chinese official’s concern that he’d offended Fauci by being quoted in a news article faulting the U.S. handling of the pandemic. Publicly, though, Fauci was critical – though polite – that the Chinese had not been forthcoming when the virus first emerged. “Early on we did not get correct information and the incorrect information was propagated right from the beginning,” he said in an April 2020 interview with Fox News.