Sen. Rand Paul has released more than 1,000 pages of former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary entries, which Fauci kept while advising the federal government’s COVID-19 response. According to reporting on the released material, the entries reflect Fauci’s awareness of widespread media attention during the early stages of the pandemic. The diaries describe his reactions to press coverage and indicate that he viewed some of that attention as flattering. The documents are also presented as containing Fauci’s views on public figures and policy decisions from that period, including remarks related to Donald Trump, as well as his perspective on COVID-19 restrictions. The diary releases come from Paul, a long-running critic of Fauci, who has used the material to highlight what he characterizes as Fauci’s personal reflections about the pandemic response and the attention surrounding it. Both outlets describe the same core event: Paul’s publication of a large batch of Fauci’s diaries and the general themes that emerge from the entries.