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作者：凯特琳·伊利克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊利克是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网驻华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选2022年美国国家新闻基金会保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿讯——肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗公开了安东尼·福奇博士的千余篇日记，为周三这位美国前顶级传染病专家出席一场可能充满争议的听证会铺平了道路，听证会将围绕新冠大流行的起源展开。
作为参议院国土安全委员会主席，保罗传唤福奇出席该委员会的听证会，作为其对新冠病毒起源调查的一部分。保罗一直宣扬新冠病毒是从中国武汉病毒研究所泄漏而非自然从动物传播给人类的理论，并长期指责福奇及其他政府官员就疫情源头向公众和国会撒谎。
这些日记的时间跨度从2019年12月，即美国宣布公共卫生紧急状态前夕，到2022年12月福奇卸任美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长一职为止。他担任该所所长近四十年。
许多科学家认为，有证据表明病毒自然起源于受感染的蝙蝠，随后传播到其他物种，并通过武汉华南海鲜市场的接触者传染给人类——2019年末首批人类感染病例就出现在该市场。但美国联邦调查局评估认为，新冠病毒“极有可能”是在武汉的“实验室事件”中泄漏的。2025年1月，美国中央情报局发布了一份新评估，更倾向于“实验室泄漏”假说，但同时表示该结论的可信度“较低”。
福奇的部分日记反映了他早期对疫情源头的不确定性。2020年1月，他写道：“我们知道市场不是源头，它只是放大器”，但他补充道，“病毒肯定是从动物跳到人类身上的，只是时间和地点问题”。大约一周后，他提到在一次电话会议中，数位顶级传染病专家认为新冠病毒可能并非自然起源。
保罗周一指责福奇在“亲爱的日记”中写下真心话，却对公众说‘病毒来自实验室是不可能的，我们确信它来自市场里的野生动物。这种程度的欺骗实在令人震惊’。
在2021年5月26日的一篇日记中，福奇写道：“关于媒体报道我在病毒起源理论上‘反复横跳’的问题，局势持续‘失控’。我一直都说，病毒极有可能自然起源于动物宿主，跨物种传播给人类。但过去几天里，鉴于外界对实验室泄漏可能性的大量猜测，我也表示过，没有人能100%确定病毒起源，包括我在内，因此我呼吁开展全面调查。”
福奇的多篇日记都提到了他接受媒体采访的情况，以及与特朗普总统和其他官员的互动。在疫情初期，福奇对突如其来的关注度以及在某些圈子里获得的“ cult hero（ cult hero一般译为‘ cult英雄’，即因特定特质或事件迅速走红的偶像）”式追捧感到有些困惑或不解。
“毫不夸张地说，如今我是全美最知名、被谈论最多的人，也是全球最易被认出的人之一，”福奇在2020年5月21日的日记中写道，“尽管我抢了他的风头，但总统似乎很喜欢我。我们之间的关系非常独特且有趣。”
福奇在日记中描述了疫情初期他与总统的一些积极互动，并对媒体暗示他和特朗普不和的报道感到不适。他写道，一张看起来像是他在特朗普接受媒体采访时捂脸的 viral 照片（注：原文为viral image，即病毒式传播的照片）“并非我的本意”。
在其他段落中，他吐槽特朗普的新闻发布会“冗长乏味”、“拖沓啰嗦”，或是描述特朗普指责他破坏其威信的争吵。
在2020年5月宣布“曲速行动”疫苗项目的活动前夕，福奇写道，特朗普把他拉到一边说：“托尼，你让我损失了数万亿美元的该死的钱”，随后又说“你和我没事”，并确认他尊重福奇。特朗普随后辩称官员们不应在活动中佩戴口罩，称这“传递了错误的信号”，但福奇提出了反对。
“托尼，我们没问题，对吧？”根据福奇的记录，总统在谈话结束后问他。
他回答说：“我们没问题，总统先生。”
到2020年8月，随着总统对福奇的公开态度愈发敌对，福奇写道特朗普行事“反复无常”，并对总统的公开批评感到沮丧，甚至在特朗普发布新冠死亡人数的不准确数据后，称其为“白痴”。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系福奇和白宫寻求置评。
保罗的办公室未回应有关他们如何获取福奇日记的置评请求。
福奇的部分日记提到了他与保罗的敌对关系。2021年4月20日，福奇写道，保罗是那些散布阴谋论“试图将我与武汉的病毒联系起来”的人之一。福奇补充说，他的一位顾问戴维·莫伦斯——此人后来因涉嫌隐瞒其与疫情研究拨款相关的通信而被联邦起诉——“听说这些人正试图‘扳倒我’”。
几个月后，福奇提到了有关他在疫情初期邮件被泄露的报道。
“这些邮件显示我从未批评过特朗普总统，我的回应始终非常礼貌和审慎。即便如此，像兰德·保罗参议员这样的疯子还是会说‘我早就告诉过你了’，暗示我的邮件证实了他们一直以来对我的指责。简直是疯言疯语！”他写道。
在2021年7月20日的日记中，福奇回忆了他在参议院委员会作证时与保罗就美国国立卫生研究院是否资助该实验室的功能获得性研究发生的争执。保罗指责福奇在之前的国会证词中撒谎。福奇反驳称，保罗所指的研究并不属于功能获得性研究。
“最后我直视着他的眼睛告诉他，如果说有人在撒谎，那就是他，”福奇写道。
福奇在2021年10月12日的日记中写道，这位参议员“仍在对我进行攻击”。
易卜拉欣·阿克索伊对本文亦有贡献。
Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Rand Paul, touch on COVID origins and tense relationship with Trump
July 27, 2026 / 10:49 PM EDT / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Washington — Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has released more than a thousand pages of journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, teeing up what is likely to be a contentious hearing with the nation’s former top infectious disease expert on Wednesday about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paul, who heads the Senate Homeland Security Committee, subpoenaed Fauci to appear before the committee as part of the panel’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. Paul, who has pushed the theory that the virus emerged from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China rather than spilling over from animals to humans naturally, has long accused Fauci and other government officials of misleading the public and Congress about the source of the outbreak.
The journal entries date from December 2019, in the days leading up to the U.S. declaring a public health emergency, until December 2022, when Fauci stepped down as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he held for nearly four decades.
Many scientists believe the evidence suggests that the virus emerged naturally from infected bats before it circulated to other species and spread to humans who were handling those animals at a market in Wuhan, where the first human cases appeared in late 2019. But the FBI has assessed the coronavirus “most likely” emerged in a “lab incident in Wuhan.” In January 2025, the CIA issued a new assessment that favored the “lab leak” hypothesis, though it said the finding was made with “low confidence.”
Some of Fauci’s diary entries reflect early uncertainty about the source of the pandemic. In January 2020, he wrote that “we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” though he added that “somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.” About a week later, he referenced a conference call in which several top infectious disease experts thought the coronavirus might not have originated in nature.
Paul on Monday accused Fauci of saying one thing to “Dear Diary” while telling the public “it’s implausible that it came from the lab, and we’re really convinced it came from these wild animals in the marketplace. But that level of dishonesty is really astounding.”
In an entry dated May 26, 2021, Fauci wrote, “The situation continues to get ‘out of control’ with regard to the press reports concerning my ‘flip flopping’ concerning the theory of the origin of the virus. I had always said that the very highly likelihood is that the virus originated naturally from an animal reservoir jumping to a human. However, over the past couple of days given the amount of speculation about the possibility of a lab leak I have been saying that no one is 100% certain of the origin including me and so I am calling for a thorough investigation.”
Many of Fauci’s diary entries note his interviews with the media, as well as his interactions with President Trump and other officials. At certain points, Fauci sounded bemused or bewildered by the sudden rush of attention and the “cult hero”-style fandom that he drew in some quarters near the start of the pandemic.
“It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson [sic] in the world,” Fauci wrote in a May 21, 2020, entry. “POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on June 3, 2024. ALLISON BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images
Fauci described some positive interactions between himself and the president in the pandemic’s early months, and appeared uncomfortable with press coverage that suggested he and Mr. Trump were feuding. He wrote that a viral image that made it look like he was facepalming while Mr. Trump spoke to the press was “not my intention.”
At other points, he vented about Mr. Trump’s “painfully rambling” and “laborious” news conferences, or described arguments in which Mr. Trump accused Fauci of undermining him.
Ahead of a May 2020 event to announce the Operation Warp Speed vaccine initiative, Fauci wrote that Mr. Trump pulled him aside and said: “Tony, you are losing me trillions of f***ing dollars,” before later saying “you and I are OK” and confirming that he respected Fauci. Mr. Trump then argued officials shouldn’t wear masks at the event, saying it “sends the wrong signal,” but Fauci pushed back.
“Tony, we are good, right?” the president asked Fauci after the conversation, according to Fauci’s notes.
He said he replied: “We are good Mr. President.”
By August 2020, as the president’s public stance toward Fauci grew more adversarial, Fauci wrote that Mr. Trump was acting “erratically” and expressed frustration about the president’s public criticisms, even referring to Mr. Trump as an “idiot” for posting inaccurate figures on COVID-19 deaths.
CBS News has reached out to Fauci and the White House for comment.
Paul’s office did not respond to a request for comment about how they obtained Fauci’s journal.
Some of Fauci’s entries noted his combative relationship with Paul. On April 20, 2021, Fauci wrote that Paul was among those spreading conspiracy theories “to try and connect me with the virus from WUHAN.” Fauci added that one of his advisers, David Morens — who has since been indicted on federal charges alleging he conspired to hide his communications related to the pandemic research grants — “has heard that these people are trying to ‘bring me down.’”
A couple of months later, Fauci cited reporting on the release of his emails from the early days of the pandemic.
“They show that I never criticize president trump and that I am always very courteous and measured in my responses. Even with that the crazies such as senator Rand Paul are saying things like ‘I told you so,’ implying that my emails are validating what they have been saying about me. Total nut cakes!” he wrote.
In a July 20, 2021, entry, Fauci recounted his appearance before a Senate committee in which he clashed with Paul over whether the National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research at the lab. Paul accused Fauci of lying about it in previous congressional testimony. Fauci countered that the research Paul was referring to did not constitute gain of function.
“I finished by looking him in the eye and telling him that if anybody is lying here it is he,” Fauci wrote.
Fauci wrote an Oct. 12, 2021, entry that the senator “continues his assault on me.”
Ibrahim Aksoy contributed to this report.