I must admit that I, like most Americans, am deathly tired of having to listen to — or in my case, write about — Dr. Anthony Fauci. It has been clear for some time that his prescriptions for dealing with the pandemic were not only wrong, but made things worse, much worse.

America’s longest serving medical bureaucrat announced in August that he would be leaving at the end of the year. (In my view, he can’t walk out the door soon enough.). But even as he prepares to exit public life—hopefully forever—he is attempting to rewrite history to exculpate himself.

His latest claim is that he “nothing to do” with the nationwide school lockdowns that followed the outbreak of Covid in the U.S. Nor, he says, is he in any way to blame for loss in learning among public school students that followed the switch to virtual learning.

In a recent interview with ABC News, not only did Fauci deny any responsibility for school closures, he went so far as to claim that he had repeatedly called upon schools to stay open as long as possible. “No one plays that clip,” he insisted. “They always come back and say ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it]. I mean, let’s get down to the facts.”