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What Anthony Fauci's Diary Reveals About COVID

The details prove that the two Faucis—public Fauci and private Fauci—were totally at odds.

Robby Soave | 7.28.2026 10:25 AM

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Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) has released entries from the diary of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and you'll never guess what the ex-coronavirus advisor actually wrote about the origins of COVID-19. Paul has revealed there's a massive gap between what Fauci said in public and what he said in private about the likely start of the pandemic.

At the start of the pandemic, on January 26th, 2020, Fauci wrote that he did not think the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China,  was where COVID jumped from animals to humans. He wrote: "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier." He cited other cases that he thought demonstrated COVID was circulating in the population in China prior to that.

So maybe Fauci changed his mind later? OK. But here's where things get interesting. Just one week later, Fauci convened a call with a........

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