Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation

US former top health official, who was subpoenaed to appear at a Senate hearing into Covid-19, says Markson's reporting about virus's origin does not make any sense'

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Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's chief medical adviser at the start of the pandemic, has described a book by News Corp investigative journalist Sharri Markson backing the lab leak" theory of Covid-19's origins as a bunch of nonsense" in his newly released diaries.

This week, Fauci, 85, was subpoenaed by the Republican senator Rand Paul to appear at a Senate hearing into Covid-19 and his handling of the pandemic.