Fauci declined to answer ‌15 questions from Republican Senator Rand Paul, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights for each of them. The FBI said in 2023 that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the pandemic, a claim China said had "no credibility whatsoever". Paul this week published a 1141-page tranche of Fauci's pandemic-era diary entries, spanning December 2019 through December 2022. A fact-check document provided by a representative of Fauci said the diary entries match what he said publicly at the time. A review of his public record provided by a representative of Fauci shows his positions were consistent with the diary.