Former White House Covid czar Dr Anthony Fauci privately ruled out a wet market in Wuhan, China, as the source of the pandemic as early as January 2020 despite years of subsequent statements to the contrary, according to explosive diary entries released by US Senator Rand Paul.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a longtime critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci’s diaries, written while he advised the federal COVID response.

Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci is set to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday on the origins of…