Fauci, in private diary, reflected on Covid’s origins and his own fame

The world was just awakening to the novel coronavirus, and a full-fledged pandemic was still in the future, when Dr. Anthony Fauci jotted a note in his diary on Jan. 26, 2020, musing about whether the virus might have originated in an open-air “wet market,” where live animals were sold, in Wuhan, China.“Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” Fauci, then the government’s top infectious disease expert, wrote. “Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.”Those private reflections became public this past weekend when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than 1,100 pages of Fauci’s typewritten daily notes as part of his investigation into whether the virus might have leaked from a laboratory and whether, as Paul claims, Fauci lied to Congress