No dishonesty - this editorial was published in the March 26 issue: https://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/382/13
For the poster to not only post the article but to cliam it was evidence of Dr. Fouci having to eat crow is what is dishonest.
Post #1 "You know it had to hurt him to admit this. We've been bamboozled." - Enlightened1
Could have been an honest mistake. An overeager flubro grasping at straws and not reading the article. But lets hear the explanation from Enlightent1
“Things appear deceptively dire if we calculate death rate solely by reference to reported COVID-19 cases; but the picture is deceptively benign if we measure deaths against an inflated conjecture about the non-reporting population.
“I suspect that this explains the ostensible contradiction between Dr. Fauci’s two comments on the fatality rate. Context is everything. In his House testimony, Fauci was confronting a political narrative that COVID-19 is really no worse than flu, and reliance on reported cases showing a 10:1 difference was a useful rebuttal. In his essay, he was trying to demonstrate to other scientists (and whatever sliver of the public reads medical journals) the imprecision of our knowledge about exactly how much worse COVID-19 is than flu.”
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/coronavirus-fatality-rate-computing-difficult