Overview
- Senator Rand Paul released private diary entries over the weekend that, according to the files, record Dr. Anthony Fauci suffering a pulmonary infarction in June 2021.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly said the diaries show the event occurred five months after Fauci’s first COVID-19 shot and that the files were recovered from 11 servers, claims that have not been independently verified.
- Commentators point to an earlier Senate report that alleges the FDA used an older data‑mining method and missed about 25 statistically significant COVID‑vaccine safety signals, a list the report said included pulmonary infarction.
- Fauci is scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday about the diaries and related pandemic-era actions, setting up focused oversight questions.
- Medical causation between the vaccine and the pulmonary infarction and the chain-of-custody for the diary files remain unverified, and reporting notes that VAERS data and statistical signals do not by themselves prove a vaccine caused an individual injury.