Sources have asked what I think of new @USRightToKnow post: @EcoHealthNYC aimed to get @DARPA grant $$ 4 risky coronavirus work, by concealing that some would be done w/ low safeguards at Wuhan Inst. of Virology, not in NC as purported. A 🧵👇 /1

https://x.com/emilyakopp/status/1736848388350459913?s=20

1st: h/t to @emilyakopp for persisting on #COVID19 origins. The story is toxic to most news outlets due to (false) claims that it's somehow right-wing/anti-science to investigate how upwards of 10-million people died. Only a small band of journos continues to actually report: /2

EXCLUSIVE: My latest @VanityFair special report uncovers an almost decade-long trail of warnings issued by @ENERGY to @NIH, other gov't agencies, about risk that US-funded biology research could be misused by overseas partners. /1vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/c… In mid-2019, just months before pandemic, Dep. Energy Secretary @dan_brouillette warned @NIAIDNews official coronavirus research it was funding at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) risked being misappropriated by China for military use. /2

NEW: My latest @VanityFair special report tells the inside story of a skirmish over early #SARSCoV2 data from Wuhan market bet. 2 leading scientific teams: China & international. China's former CDC director George Gao spoke extensively w/ vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/r… /1 @VanityFair, sharing some of most extended remarks to a Western media outlet since the pandemic’s onset. He says #COVID19's origin remains unknown and no possibility, including lab leak, can be ruled out: “I think everything's possible." /2

NEW: My latest @VanityFair special report takes a deep dive into @GovRonDeSantis' 180 pivot on #COVID19 vaccines, from promoting to investigating them. Will anti-vax policy become an official part of GOP platform? /1 vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/d… A Florida statewide grand jury launched by DeSantis is now investigating whether @moderna_tx and @pfizer made false claims for profit about the efficacy of #COVID19 vaccines. It will report results in Jan. 2024, potentially in time to influence GOP primary voters. /2

Today, a @WSJ story disclosed that US Dep't of Energy has concluded #COVID19 "most likely arose" from a lab leak, citing classified intel recently provided to @WhiteHouse and key congress members. Some thoughts on where this revelation leaves us: 🧵👇 wsj.com/articles/covid… /1 It does not mean #COVID19 necessarily came from a Wuhan lab. Rather, it underscores the need for ongoing investigation into an open question: did #COVID19 spill over from an infected animal at a Wuhan market, or result from an accidental lab leak? @WHO has long been clear: /2

EXCLUSIVE: @VanityFair/@ProPublica special report from inside Senate #COVID19 origins investigation. @jeffykao + I got 100s of pages of Senate research findings, 500+ documents from inside Wuhan Institute of Virology, consulted CCP experts: vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/c… 🧵👇 /1 Our 5-month investigation offers most detailed picture of critical months before #COVID19 outbreak: intense scientific pressure at WIV, mounting safety issues, undisclosed documents referencing Nov. 2019 biosafety incident there. Same story, also here: propublica.org/article/senate… /2

BREAKING: my @VanityFair investigation into @EcoHealthNYC, @NIAIDNews transparency and debate over #COVID19 origins is live. Vanity Fair obtained over 100,000 internal EcoHealth Alliance documents including meeting minutes, internal emails, reports. vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/t… /1 The documents - most predate pandemic - shed light on the world @EcoHealthNYC operated in: one of murky grant agreements, flimsy NIH oversight and pursuit of gov't grants by pitching increasingly risky global research. /2

Breaking: Pleased to share my @VanityFair special report on @WhiteHouse deliberations over #COVID19 rapid testing. In an October 22 meeting, the administration got a detailed 10-pg plan to ramp up rapid testing to "prevent holiday COVID surge." vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/t… /1 Central to that plan, presented by @TheCOVIDCollab, @RockefellerFdn + others, was a "Bold Plan for Impact," namely: "Every American Household To Receive Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays/New Year." /2

My latest @VanityFair story: on significant @NIH admission that the agency funded risky #coronavirus research by @EcoHealthNYC and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/n… /1 In July hearing, Fauci denied to @SenRandPaul such research took place: "I totally resent the lie you are propagating." @NIH spokesperson tells me Fauci had been "entirely truthful," and had not yet seen @EcoHealthNYC report spelling out that research. /2

Breaking: my @VanityFair special report is now live, a deep dive into "Operation Warp Speed on steroids," the Biden Administration's lurching effort to vaccinate the world. vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/h… /1 With roiling conflict between @WHCOVIDResponse and health agencies, an official says delays led "tens of millions" of people overseas to go unvaccinated. An Administration official calls the critics "ankle biters."
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BREAKING: my months-long @VanityFair investigation on #COVID19 origins is live. Interviews w/ over 40 people, review of hundreds of pgs. of U.S. gov't docs. incl. internal memos, meeting minutes, email correspondence, found.... vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t… /1 Conflicts of interest, in part from large US gov't grants supporting controversial virology research, known as "gain-of-function," hampered U.S. gov't investigation into #COVID19 origins, and legit. questions on #LabLeak hypothesis, at every step. /2

"Right now, I'm scared," warns @CDCDirector on press call, emotion in her voice: 10% increase in cases over last week; deaths rising to 1,000 per day. Warns of European trajectory. #COVID19. @CDCDirector Calls on the press to sound the alarm. Warns unmistakably of a 4th surge.

SCOOP: My latest
@VanityFair
investigation chronicles the battle in the Trump Admin's final days over which federal employees would get scarce #COVID19 vaccinations. vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/h… #ShotChasers (corrected link) /1 A closely guarded @WhiteHouse list attracted almost every stripe of would-be line jumper, from reps of Cabinet secretaries to young desk jockeys to those claiming ties to @jaredkushner. /2

SCOOP: My latest @VanityFair investigation chronicles the battle in the Trump Admin's final days over which federal employees would get scarce #COVID19 vaccinations. vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/h… #ShotChasers A closely guarded @WhiteHouse list attracted almost every stripe of would-be line jumper, from reps of Cabinet secretaries to young desk jockeys to those claiming ties to @jaredkushner. /2

SCOOP: My latest @VanityFair investigation tells the inside story of how the #COVID19 vaccine rollout devolved into chaos: turf wars, infighting, a muzzled @CDCgov and ideological embrace of a hands-off fed gov't role. vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/h… /1 Gen. Perna focused intently on photo-op of "N-hour sequence," delivery trucks rolling from warehouse within 24 hours of @US_FDA authorization. In one tense meeting, his staff had to explain that CDC had a different metric for success: getting shots into arms. /2

EXCLUSIVE: My new special report in @VanityFair: a deep dive into @US_FDA #COVID19 response. Agency besieged w/ product pitches funneled from Trump @WhiteHouse, based on new internal docs and dozens of exclusive interviews, including w/ @SteveFDA. vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/h… /1 A special White House email was created for "‘concierge service’ on these offers and requests," according to email sent by former deputy @WHNSC director Matthew Pottinger in March. /2

BREAKING: My latest @VanityFair story, a detailed investigation into how the White House secretly drafted, then abandoned, a plan to nationalize America's broken #COVID19 diagnostic testing system. vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h… /1 The plan, reported for 1st time here, was killed amid shifting WH logic: “political folks believed that because [virus] was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy....” @ProjectLincoln/2

1) With #BottleofLies just out in paperback, I wanted to revisit its key disclosures, the book's impact and explore: has our fraud-fueled drug-quality crisis changed for better or worse? @eccobooks @AltFda Thread 👇

https://twitter.com/eccobooks/status/1275461552267821056

2) #BottleofLies recounts wild fraud at India's largest Rx co. Ranbaxy, maker of low-cost meds 4 US patients including 1st version of generic Lipitor (which contained glass particles/pic below). Ranbaxy would be operating today had @D_S_Thakur not risked his life to expose truth.

1/With today's @US_FDA decision to end emergency authorization for #hydroxychloroquine to treat #COVID19, let's revisit the clues that this miracle cure, touted by @POTUS, was politics, not science, from the start politi.co/2YGa59C (thread) 2/Right away, the FDA's emergency use authorization (EUA) allowed for plummeting quality standards. Stockpile chloroquine phosphate from uninspected Rx plants in Pakistan + India? Why not? reut.rs/2UOo5x7

With the news from India that former Ranbaxy CEO Malvinder Singh and his brother Shivinder have been arrested for alleged fraud, I want to offer a few thoughts from my decade of reporting #BottleofLies. (1) Malvinder Singh was complicit in Ranbaxy's ongoing fraud. He was at the Oct. 14, 2004 boardroom meeting when @D_S_Thakur's explosive PPT (1 page below) alleging global data falsification, was shown to board members. (2)

Since #BottleOfLies came out on May 14, I've been flooded with questions by readers, listeners, patients: how can they know where their #genericdrugs are made or whether they’re safe. @BrianLehrer @SamSeder @nprfreshair @democracynow [Thread] No easy way to answer that question. But…I’ve put together a short guide for the worried + curious: How to Investigate Your Own Drugs. @alt_fda @d_s_thakur @blakeleymusic Below info will be up on my website katherineeban.com soon [2]