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What others have found in Anthony Fauci’s released diaries, FOIA emails, depositions and testimony — grouped by topic. Every quote below is taken from the searchable Fauci Files archive (or a clearly labeled outside video), dated, attributed, and linked to that record.
This page is a source index, not a finding. Nothing here says anyone lied or intended to mislead. Characterizations (for example, who “won” a call, or what a quote “means”) belong to the named speaker or outlet. Where PolitiFact or another outlet notes omitted context, that note is included. No court or official body has found that these diary entries were false.
Contents
- 1. Wet market as “amplifier”
- 2. Feb 1, 2020 scientists’ call
- 3. Case fatality estimate
- 4. “Fame is explosive”
- 5. de Blasio / NYC schools
- 6. Jake Tapper / media
- 7. Vaccination-proof event
- 8. Missing Years notes
- 9. Missing Pages notes
- 10. Call with Kristian Andersen
- 11. Pregnancy & the COVID vaccine
- 12. Aerosolized challenge studies (USAMRIID)
- 13. “Please delete this e-mail”
- 14. Dan David Prize (~$900,000)
- 15. Ebola vaccine trial design (2015)
- 16. Atlas / Great Barrington
- 17. Measles vaccinations missed
- 18. Boosters and myocarditis
- 19. White House “double standard” (Feb 2022)
- Methods and limits
- Related private-vs-public pairings
1. Wet market as “amplifier”
Origins — Jan 26, 2020
Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.
The same entry also says the first infection “was in early December and was not connected to the market,” and that infections “spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection.”
How it was reported: Sen. Rand Paul highlighted the amplifier line on X (post). The Daily Caller summarized the diary against public remarks about the market (Jul 26, 2026). FactCheck.org argued Paul’s framing of this entry omitted the animal-to-human line that follows (Jul 2026). PolitiFact (Aug 3, 2026) likewise notes that hearing comments on this entry often omit the rest of the paragraph, including “somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans” (article).
Nuance The diary line rejects the market as the source while still describing an animal-to-human jump. See also Private vs. public §10 (wet market) and related origins context in §3.
2. Feb 1, 2020 scientists’ call
Origins — Feb 1, 2020
There was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion. Ron Fouchier said he was sure that this could occur naturally and we should not waste our time and divert effort to pursue this. … Also, Christian Drosten was with Ron; the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible and given the fact that Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in GOF in coronaviruses … we could not let this go.
The same entry lists the call’s participants (Collins, Fauci, Farrar, Vallance, Andersen, Drosten, Holmes, Rambaut, Fouchier, Garry, Ferguson, Koopmans — twelve names as printed).
How it was reported: Sen. Paul’s framing on X was that only about 2 of ~12 scientists concluded a natural origin and “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible” (post, follow-up). That “2 of ~12” count is Paul’s characterization; the diary names Fouchier and Drosten as arguing for a natural path and says “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible,” without itself printing a “2 of 12” tally.
PolitiFact nuance (Aug 3, 2026) PolitiFact’s article on diary-vs-public claims says some circulating claims omit context from these early origins entries, and it separately summarizes the Feb 1 call as nine of eleven scientists believing deliberate insertion was possible — a different count from both Paul’s “2 of ~12” framing and a strict reading of the participant list. PolitiFact covers that count debate; the diary text is quoted above. PolitiFact, Aug 3, 2026.
3. Case fatality estimate
Risk communication — Feb 8 & Mar 11, 2020
Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak. He and I are on the same page in thinking tht this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.
the seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1 percent. The stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and now three. I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu
How it was reported: Fox News and related posts compared the diary’s 0.2–0.3% private CFR note with the ~1% figure given to Congress (Fox; Fox Politics X; Kanekoa). The diary entry is a private note of agreement with Tom Frieden on Feb 8; the public line a month later still describes the infection as far more lethal than seasonal flu once asymptomatic cases are counted.
Context The diary figure and the hearing figure are not the same claim on the same day. The hearing quote already lowers a 2–3% “stated” mortality to “somewhere around one percent” by including mild and asymptomatic cases. Whether the gap between 0.2–0.3% and ~1% is a contradiction is a characterization; the primary texts are linked above. See also Private vs. public §8 (case fatality).
4. “Fame is explosive”
Public profile — Mar 21, 2020 Header note
Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world.
tonys-diary-pandemic-2020-05-21 (header text). Open recordDate note: This page shows the entry as March 21, 2020, with a short note that the printed header reads May 21. Surrounding chronology places the block between the Mar 20 and Mar 22 entries; case counts on the same header (global ~234,100; USA ~19,300) match mid-March 2020, not late May; and the next dated header on the following page is “Mar. 22, 2020.” Fox News and The Hill have used the literal May 21 header; KanekoaTheGreat used Mar 21. The searchable database record id is unchanged.
How it was reported: Rand Paul, related, Kanekoa (Mar 21 framing). A separate Streisand / Alexa anecdote circulated in the same wave (Paul post); that is a different diary passage (listening to Streisand via Alexa), not this fame paragraph.
5. de Blasio / NYC schools
School closures — Mar 15, 2020
I spoke with Bill de Blasio (Mayor – NYC) and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools (he had already decided based on what I was saying on TV). I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in NYC. He said that he would base this on my recommendation.
The next day’s entry (Mar 16, 2020) describes guidelines that included closing schools “where there is community spread” and closing bars and restaurants in communities with spread (record).
Later public line often paired with this entry: In a July 2022 interview on The Hill’s Rising, Fauci said, as quoted by multiple outlets and later read into the Senate record (Jul 29, 2026), “First of all, I didn’t recommend locking anything down,” and pointed to the CDC as the recommending agency. Video of that interview (The Hill Rising upload, not a congressional archive): Watch. Paired with this diary entry on Private vs. public §9.
How it was reported: Tom Elliott, Clay Travis. PolitiFact (Aug 3, 2026) notes that later 2020 diary entries favored a default of opening schools when safe, and that Mar 15 is one of several school-related notes rather than the whole record (article).
6. Jake Tapper / media
Questions for Tapper’s Giroir interview — Jul 26, 2020
Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullsh*t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.
Jake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all.
The diary records that Fauci gave Jake Tapper questions to ask of Giroir on CNN’s State of the Union, and that Tapper later called him angry at a presidential tweet about that interview. No characterization beyond the diary’s own words is added here.
Dinner — Jul 1, 2020
Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building.
Related Tapper notes — Apr 13 & May 14, 2020
Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.
Chris Cuomo, and Jake Tapper are trying to clarify this in my defense on their shows.
How it was reported: Emily Jashinsky and related posts described the dinner and Tapper contacts; the Jul 26 questions line is in the Senate diary release linked above.
7. Vaccination-proof event
Vaccine breakthrough concern — Nov 17, 2021
When I went home that night I was nervous all night looking at the ceiling concerned about having gotten infected in that very crowded restaurant despite the fact that vaccination proof was required to get in. I'm well aware that many people who are vaccinated are still getting infected and that worried me a lot.
How it was reported: Young Americans for Liberty.
8. Missing Years notes
2015–19 diary package — released Oct 7, 2026
These passages are in the Fauci Files archive under tonys-diary-missing-years.
I was called to the meeting because of my “knowledge and standing and because I am Tony Fauci”.
Dec. 18, 2019 – TRUMP IMPEACHED – Impeachment voted in the House purely on Party lines. GOP not defending Trump, but screaming about the “unfairness” of the “process”.
Other Missing Years entries record critical remarks about Trump attributed to third parties (for example, Bob Woodward saying he feels “the Trump is truly a danger to the nation,” May 14, 2019 area) and Fauci’s own notes such as “Trump is so unpredictable” (early Jan 2017). Circulating posts that say he “called for impeachment in writing” should be checked against the exact page: the Dec 18 header announces the House impeachment vote; it is not, on its face, a personal call for impeachment.
How it was reported: Sen. Rand Paul, John Solomon.
9. Missing Pages notes
Dec 2021–May 2022 package — released Oct 14, 2026
These passages are in the Fauci Files archive under tonys-diary-missing-pages. Primary quotes:
****Very important issue to discuss in the book. The entire controversy with China as the source of the outbreak and the lab leak theory stems from the tension between Trump and China. … remember to emphasize in the book that a lot of this really stemmed from Trump inappropriately ordering the cancelling of the Wuhan grant.
The project Veritas YouTube clip was really a nothing burger. They referred to the DARPA grant that was sent by ecohealth full consideration for funding. It had stuff in it that could likely require P3CO oversight if it had been sent to us. however it was never sent to us and DAR PA rejected it.
It has become extremely clear that the CDC is truly a dysfunctional organization. It pains me to say this I do not want to make this explicit in writing of the book; however in many respects it is the truth.
Quite frankly even the CDC admits that their data about 15 minutes is really based on almost no science particularly when you're dealing with a situation in which you have an aerosolized virus like omicron that has a great degree of transmissibility.
How it was reported: Sen. Rand Paul. Roundup of the earlier diary wave: Tom Elliott.
10. Call with Kristian Andersen
NIH grant / chimeric viruses — May 23, 2021
I had a very interesting and helpful conversation today with Christian Andersen of Scripps Research Institute. He was very emphatic that the work that was done at the Wu Han Institute in Association with our grant was not gain of function . In addition he confirmed that if you match the chimeric viruses that were made in the context of the NIH grant in Wuhan, they are not even close sequence wise to the SARS-CoV-2. Christian will be writing a letter together with some data on this topic; however, I feel much better now that he is in total support of what I have been saying.
Andersen is a lead author of the Proximal Origin paper. The diary does not use the phrase “Proximal Origin” in this entry; it describes a call about the NIH grant / chimeric viruses and Andersen’s support.
How it was reported: Sen. Rand Paul.
11. Pregnancy & the COVID vaccine
Government iPhone texts — Jan 25–26, 2021
Record note Claims circulate that Fauci warned of pregnancy risks from the COVID vaccine. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Chair Ron Johnson) and Senate HSGAC (Chair Rand Paul) released texts from Fauci’s government iPhone (HHS copy provided to PSI on Aug 5, 2026). The Jan 25–26, 2021 chain below is from those releases. Read-receipt timing and the “unclear why” framing of the Mascola text are the senators’ description of the export, not an independent finding.
For pregnant women considering getting the vaccine, are you aware of any data or theoretical reason why vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred?
my understanding is that this is all a data free.
Agree with Rochelle. There are no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.
I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester
I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester
Definitely a good point, esp after dose two.
Related diary / FOIA context (Mar 2021)
Got call tonight from Larry Horowitz saying that Drew Weissman and his collaborator are planning to hold a press conference to discuss their studies in mice showing that an intramuscular injection of the mRNA vaccine leads to an immune response in the amniotic fluid of the pups in a pregnancy model. The FDA has already received the DART (Development and Reproductive Toxicology) studies from Moderna and Pfizer. According to Emily these studies were clean. … Even if the Weissman studies prove to be invalid, the fact that they are holding a press conference is going to create a huge mess.
I took the led in pushing Janet Woodcock (FDA) and Rochelle Walensky (CDC) to make sure that all their ducks were in order. In fact, Janet checked and both Pfizer and Moderna had clean DART studies on record and CDC was following closely 2000 vaccinated pregnant women from a cohort of 31,000 and no red flags. All good so far.
The SMEs on that call (especially obgyns) were aware that mRNA might reach the fetus. The only discussion was around the possibility of that mRNA to integrate into the nuclear DNA. And the second main concern was the fever caused by the vaccine, especially during the first trimester, but they went around that by recommending the administration of acetaminophen after vaccination.
How it was reported: Johnson/Paul Aug 10, 2026 release; Aug 16 additional texts.
12. Aerosolized challenge studies (USAMRIID)
Missing Years diary — Mar 7 & 9, 2016
Verification note The Mar 7 entry’s “idiots … USAMRIID” line sits in a paragraph about an aerosolized Zika challenge in NHPs. The Mar 9 / Senate Ebola-package pages describe an aerosolized Ebola challenge of the VSV vaccine. Circulating coverage often labels both as “aerosolized Ebola”; the diary text for Mar 7 says Zika. These are aerosol challenge studies (exposure route), not genetic gain-of-function alteration.
Spoke with Amy Pope about a crazy situation where USAMRIID did an aerosolized challenge of Zika in NHPs and showed that the VSV vaccine did not protect (no surprise). … What idiots those guys at USAMRIID are. This should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place.
with WH, CIA, NIA, DoD HHS regarding an experiment that the USAMRIID did that challenged NHPs with aerosolized Ebola to see if the VSV vaccine protected. Obviously, it did not. Stupid experiment.
As it turns out, the NIAID people in our bio defense program rely on the Department of Defense to conduct bioterror related experiments using a variety of Ebola vaccines to determine their efficacy against aerosolized challenge
How it was reported: Just the News; Rand Paul; related.
13. “Please delete this e-mail”
Emails — Feb 2, 2020 and Dec 19, 2011
Please delete this e-mail after you read it.
Please delete e-mail after you read it.
Also paired on Private vs. public §1 with later sworn testimony about deleting records.
How it was reported: Rand Paul.
14. Dan David Prize (~$900,000)
Senate awards package — released Jul 24, 2026
the largest came from a foreign institution that wired him $900,000. … The largest by far was the $900,000 Dan David Award from a foundation affiliated with Tel Aviv University.
How it was reported: Rand Paul.
15. Ebola vaccine trial design (2015)
an inherently good and effective vaccine that was put into a terribly flawed study design. And so now they (WHO, Norwegians, MSF) are claiming victory for the study, when it is the vaccine that could have proven effective in any study since it is so good. Such is life…. … I am leaning heavily towards praise for the study. We cannot criticize the study since that is exactly what the press is looking for and then they will create a tension between HHS and WHO.
How it was reported: Daily Caller.
16. Atlas / Great Barrington
Based here am I strongly suggest that Dr. Atlas be removed from the Task Force and quite frankly from the White House itself.
Alex Azar met yesterday with Atlas and his 3 stooges – Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Martin Kulldorff’s (Harvard).
Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos (ABC) – I blew away the Great Barrington Declaration
17. Measles vaccinations missed
fact that >1 million children world-wide have missed their measles vaccinations because of the shutdown. This is terrible and needs to be addressed since on that basis alone, there would be far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than coronavirus deaths among children
18. Boosters and myocarditis
I keep insisting that I feel that a third shot boost should be part of the standard vaccine regimen and that a boost is not just the luxury but an integral part of the regiment. … after we get more safety data regarding myocarditis in the younger group.
given the fact that we have plateaued on cases at around 70,000 per day and that we have already lost 750,000 Americans we should clearly boost everyone. … Of course the CDC and their ACIP may not be as enthusiastic given what I believe is an overly concerned attitude about myocarditis in the younger male age group.
19. White House “double standard” (Feb 2022)
Ron Klain was concerned that if the President wears a mask or requires vaccination for people to see him as well as testing that the world would see that as a double standard and other agencies would ask for these requirments. I argued against this saying that the special situation with the president warrants that. In fact, the president agreed with me and at one point when the question was asked why should we make these special considerations for the White House, the president used the first profane word that I ever heard when he answered the question of Ron by saying because “I'm the f*cking President of the United states”.
Methods and limits
- Sources: Fauci Files collections on EpidemicOfFraud.com — Pandemic Diary, Diary Prequel (redacted), Missing Years, Missing Pages, FOIA / Senate email packages, hearings, White House briefings, NIH press releases, and Government iPhone texts (Senate PSI/HSGAC Aug 10 & 16, 2026 releases; OCR from image PDFs).
- Every diary and email quote on this page is an exact substring of the linked record (ellipsis marks omitted intervening text). PDF page numbers come from those records.
- Watch links appear where an official or clearly labeled video is available (House Mar 11, 2020 hearing in the archive; July 2022 Hill Rising as a labeled circulating upload).
- Primary sources are the Senate PDF releases and other official collections hosted via the Fauci Files viewer. Social posts are “how it was reported,” not independent proof of the diary text.
- The unredacted Prequel PDF is not included in the public archive.
Related private-vs-public pairings
Also on Private vs. public:
- §8 Case fatality / death rate
- §9 Schools / “locking down” (Hill Rising Watch kept)
- §10 Wet market as source vs. amplifier
- §11 Pregnancy texts vs. public vaccination advice
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