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15 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
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
The process for divvying up vaccines to federal employees was so opaque, White House COVID-19 task force members suspected doses were being "siphoned" off the top. /3
Inside #OperationWarpSpeed, General Perna's deputies told @WHNSC officials to "kiss the ring" to get doses. "I don't take orders from a child," Perna fumed at a fraught meeting over which employees got shots. /END

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Katherine Eban Profile picture
15 Mar
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
The process for divvying up vaccines to federal employees was so opaque, White House COVID-19 task force members suspected doses were being "siphoned" off the top. /3
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5 Feb
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
Of the roughly dozen board meetings #OperationWarpSpeed held, only 1 dealt w logistics of vaccine administration. @CDCgov official @DrNancyM_CDC "warned and warned" of impending chaos, even as CDC advised that operational plans were "close hold. /3
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19 Jan
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
Through that email poured a "tsunami" of pitches for COVID diagnostics, including from @itsmarlamaples @TheJillKelley and ventilators backed by @IvankaTrump. @DrPeterLurie calls this special access "Outrageous." /3
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30 Jul 20
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
WH secretly procured 3.5 million Chinese-made diagnostic tests from UAE company. Tests, delivered to @UAEEmbassyUS, didn't work. The invoice simply lists client name as "WH". Without a legit gov't contract, invoice cannot be paid. @COVIDOversight @weareoversight /3
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25 Jun 20
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 👇
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.
3) Ranbaxy's fraud was encapsulated in a smoking-gun internal PPT shown to company directors: the company had registered over 200 products in more than 40 countries using fake data. For 1st time, I am making the full doc available here: katherineeban.com/new-page @PeterAttiaMD
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15 Jun 20
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
3/The compromise was worth it, supposedly, because the drug was a #gamechanger, as @POTUS proclaimed. As the Trump administration secretly planned to flood NY + NJ w/ millions of doses, gov't scientists rightly resisted: vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/i…
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