Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released a 1,141-page collection of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diary entries on July 24, 2026, three days before Fauci is set to testify under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29. NPR

The document, labeled "Tony's Diary Package" and posted to Paul's Senate website, covers December 2019 through December 2022, the period Fauci served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Paul announced the release in a thread on X on Saturday, July 25, writing that what Fauci "wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories." NPR

Paul chairs the committee that subpoenaed Fauci. A subpoena is a legal order requiring someone to appear and testify. Paul issued it after Fauci told the committee he would not appear voluntarily. The hearing is the latest in a years-long dispute between the two over how the COVID-19 pandemic began. Fauci has said the scientific evidence points to a spillover origin, meaning the virus jumped from animals to humans naturally. Paul has pushed the lab-leak hypothesis and has investigated U.S. funding sent to a virology lab in Wuhan, China. NPR

The diary release is part of a broader document publication effort. On July 27, Paul posted a second file, labeled "Diary Prequel," with written records starting from April 11, 2001. The Reading Room on Paul's Senate website also hosts a 465-page collection of Fauci's historical records and email exchanges spanning 2001 through July 2015. paul.senate.gov

The original 1,141-page diary document was no longer available on the website as of Monday, July 27, according to NPR. The outlet did not specify when or why it was removed. NPR

Neither Fauci nor Paul responded to NPR's request for comment before publication on July 27. NPR

Fauci stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2022. Paul has continued investigating COVID-19 origins and what he describes as risky taxpayer-funded life sciences research even after Fauci left government service. The inquiry has extended beyond Fauci: the Lancet medical journal declined a request from the U.S. Senate related to the COVID-19 origins investigation, as reported in April 2026. Reuters

The broader context here is one of competing narratives arriving at a formal setting. The timing of the diary release, days before the subpoenaed testimony, gives the July 29 hearing a document-heavy backdrop. As committee chairman, Paul controls the gavel and the witness list, and the published records give him a body of primary-source material drawn from Fauci's own written words during the period in question. Whether the diary entries contain the contradictions Paul has alleged will be tested when Fauci appears under oath on Wednesday.