"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.
@CDCDirector .CDCdirector warns that states are "opening up at levels that we would not recommend." Explains that "vaccinations will be so much slower if we have another surge to deal with as well."
@CDCDirector Urges Americans, "Please limit travel to essential travel for the time being."
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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
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
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
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
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
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