{"id":4483,"date":"2026-07-29T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:13:45","slug":"faucis-diary-shows-he-thought-covid-could-be-man-made-now-hes-telling-congress-it-was-molecularly-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Fauci\u2019s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he\u2019s telling Congress it was \u2018molecularly impossible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky subpoenaed Fauci to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday. It\u2019s part of Paul\u2019s\u00a0yearslong accusations\u00a0that the now-retired infectious disease expert had lied about the pandemic, something\u00a0Fauci has called \u201cpreposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4481\">Dr. Fauci, the Age of Big Players in science and what his diary reveals about the disputed origins of Covid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the hearing, Paul released more than a thousand pages of Fauci\u2019s personal diary covering the pandemic years. Pointing to some notes about early efforts at understanding how the virus emerged, Paul wrote on the social media platform X that what Fauci \u201cwrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the diary entries \u2014 including his uncertainty in the pandemic\u2019s earliest days as scientists around the world raced to understand the new virus and how best to curb it before vaccines could be created \u2014 already were reflected in Fauci\u2019s 2024 memoir and in interviews at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re likely to further inflame a partisan divide that, years after the pandemic, still makes Fauci a\u00a0target of vitriol\u00a0from people who blame him for mask mandates and other policies they believe infringed on their rights as hundreds of thousands of people were dying.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier letter to Paul, Fauci\u2019s attorneys called his allegations \u201cabsolutely baseless\u201d and part of an \u201cobsessive and groundless vendetta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists scrambled to Fauci\u2019s defense ahead of the unusual hearing \u2014 the second time the longtime National Institutes of Health scientist has been back before Congress to discuss pandemic origins since leaving the government in 2022. While the COVID-19 pandemic introduced him to millions of Americans, he talked the nation through numerous outbreaks over decades, including HIV, Ebola and the 2001 anthrax attacks, while advising seven presidents.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a public letter, more than 150 infectious disease experts and other scientists wrote that \u201cno credible evidence has been produced to support these absurd charges\u201d and that they are \u201curging our elected representatives in Congress stop these witch-hunts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expected crux of Wednesday\u2019s hearing: whether NIH-funded research in China may have played any role in how the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4479\">China\u2019s robot makers shipped 25x more units than U.S. rivals in 2025, so America banned them<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many scientists believe the virus most likely emerged in nature and jumped from animals to people, coming to light when it spread at a wildlife market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. There\u2019s no new scientific information supporting that the virus might instead have leaked from a laboratory, a theory Paul champions. A GOP-led subcommittee that studied the question in 2024 did not find any evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fauci has long said publicly that he was open to both theories, but that there\u2019s more evidence supporting COVID-19\u2019s natural origins, the way other deadly viruses including coronavirus cousins SARS and MERS jumped into people.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republicans also have accused Fauci of lying about whether his agency funded \u201cgain of function\u201d research \u2014 the practice of enhancing a virus in a lab to study its potential real-world impact \u2014 at a lab in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>NIH for years gave grants to a New York nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance that used some of the funds to work with a Chinese lab studying coronaviruses commonly carried by bats. But the definition of \u201cgain of function\u201d covers both general research and especially risky experiments to \u201cenhance\u201d the ability of potentially pandemic pathogens to spread or cause severe disease in humans. Fauci has previously stressed he was using the risky experiment definition and that \u201cit would be molecularly impossible\u201d for those bat virus experiments to have turned into the pandemic virus.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration last year paused some federally funded gain-of-function research and on Tuesday announced new rules to tighten oversight.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4477\">Obama got \u2018whooped\u2019 by a Paralympian on the basketball court \u2014 now he wants Iowa to send him to the Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 150 scientists call Rand Paul&#8217;s probe a &#8220;witch-hunt&#8221; after a 2024 GOP subcommittee found no evidence against Fauci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fauci\u2019s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. 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