The article’s full text was unavailable because access to the page was denied. From the headline, it appears to report that a former Trump administration health official, Brett Giroir, criticised Dr Anthony Fauci’s diaries and described their tone as showing “unabashed narcissism”.

Without the article itself, the specific diary entries, the context of Giroir’s remarks and any response from Fauci cannot be verified. The matter is significant because it concerns competing retrospective accounts of senior US public-health decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.