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Rand Paul Publishes Fauci Diaries, Laying Out Early Doubts on Wuhan Market and Lab Origin

Republican leaders cite the notes to demand oversight before Fauci's July 29 Senate testimony

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 03, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Overview

  • Sen. Rand Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary entries this week that cover December 2019 through 2022 and include contemporaneous notes from January 2020.
  • The entries record Fauci writing that the Wuhan market looked like an amplifier not the original source and note a Jan. 2020 expert call where several scientists considered a laboratory origin plausible.
  • The diaries show Fauci privately flagged early concerns about asymptomatic transmission while publicly offering more cautious, symptomatic-focused messaging two days later.
  • Republicans are using the documents to press oversight and to question federal research funding and public messaging, and Fauci is scheduled to appear under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29.
  • The release deepens partisan debate over the pandemic record and intersects with earlier FOIA disclosures, differing U.S. agency assessments of origins, and a prior presidential pardon that limits criminal exposure.