1. Donald Trump, his key backer Peter Thiel, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Covid coordinator are directly linked to nationwide under-reporting of Covid-19 cases and deaths. We learned this morning the data was flawed.
2. The under-reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths follow a decision by Dr. Deborah Birx to privatize COVID-19 data collection from the CDC to a Pittsburgh company that uses a platform built by Peter Thiel's Palantir. Thiel is close to Trump.
3. Birx decided to jettison the existing CDC reporting system for COVID-19 which had been developed over 15 years, and replaced it with a platform operated by a Pittsburgh-based private company, TeleTracking.
4. And now we're learning that Peter Thiel's data company Palantir developed TeleTracking's platform. Thiel holds a substantial stake in Facebook, backed Trump's 2016 campaign and is close to Erik Prince. vox.com/recode/2020/7/…
5. I warned of the perils of Thiel's encroachment into COVID-19 surveillance back in April, after exposing his ties to an Israeli based surveillance start-up Carbyne.
6. In summary, the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are being under-reported after a decision by Dr. Deborah Birx to privatize COVID-19 data collection from the CDC to a Pittsburgh company that uses a platform built by Peter Thiel's Palantir.
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