‘Tony’s Diary’ Indicates Fauci Believed COVID-19 Death Rate was Far Lower Than What He Told Lawmakers Under Oath

The Gateway Pundit reported that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee,recently released diary entries, Tony’s Diary Package, from former White House COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The release shows a bizarre obsession with fame and also indicates he believed the COVID death rate was far lower than what he told lawmakers while under oath.

The diaries were public as part of the committee’s ongoing oversight investigation.

Senator Paul shared a series of statments X about the diary and the release, “My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories. Today I’m releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022.”

“While publicly posturing as a champion of science, he was privately directing his staff to destroy federal records.  This is a blatant violation, a betrayal of the public trust, and further proof that Fauci engaged in a coverup from the very beginning of the pandemic. I’m going to ask him about this when he goes under oath this Wednesday.”

In testimony before the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, Fauci told lawmakers, “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 three.”

Fox News notes that, when asked by Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) to compare the mortality from COVID-19 to the mortality of the seasonal flu, he responded, “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.”

“I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.”

Yet, on page 19 of the document, he wrote, referencing former CDC Director Tom Frieden, ” 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%.”

Fauci also complained in the diary that Elon Musk was attacking him on X, and it clearly got under his skin (pages 1138-1140).

He wrote, “All of a sudden, Elon Musk has started to viciously attack me with tweets on Twitter,” and, “Many people in the press and outside are asking about and concerned about the attacks on
me by Elon Musk.

But Musk wasn’t wrong in his hope that Fauci faces consequences.

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022

Following the release of the diary, Musk weighed in again with a fresh trolling, “Fauci smelled it and he also dealt it.”

Fauci smelled it and he also dealt it https://t.co/2K2oGmogO2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2026

Fauci is scheduled to testify on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET at a public hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.