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Oct 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Important insights.

Jeffrey Sachs basically had to get rid of Daszak and anybody linked to him after he refused to disclose to him the WIV grants he was involved with.

Jeffrey had to learn about them via FOIA'd documents and via the DEFUSE leak. Very unpleasant experience.
“I said there was no way he could be task force chair or on the commission if he didn’t share those.”
"The other 11 people on the task force refused to remove Daszak from their ranks, but agreed to make Keusch their chair instead."

So basically he first asked Daszak to step down from any work on the origins and keep working on the epidemiology side first.
That backfired for the other Task Force members, when the details of "Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in EID Hotspots of Southeast Asia” was released following FOIA by The Intercept.

Keusch and three other task force members were listed as co-investigators.
There is no excuse for not being transparent.
Keusch, who was made chair after Daszak had to step back a bit (not yet removed), objects.

But if - as he says - the grant was not an issue and should not have affected Daszak suitability, why did Daszak refuse to disclose it?

Seriously, Keusch should find some better excuses.
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Sep 30
1/8 As I promised some time ago, here is an important piece on the genesis of Proximal Origin.

I called it 'A Tragicomedy of our Times' because that's precisely what it is.

The piece is long (book-size), but there is a short Summary:


@JeremyFarrargillesdemaneuf.medium.com/summary-proxim…
2/8 Key questions are addressed in this research, such as:

👉🏻 Who was really behind the investigative initiative of Jeremy Farrar, of the Wellcome Trust, at the end of January 2020.

👉🏻 Why the tone and conclusions of the Proximal Origin draft changed so much within a week of the confidential investigative call that took place on 1 Feb, organised by Farrar at the suggestion of Anthony Fauci (head of NIAID).

👉🏻 Why the agreed plan to have the WHO onboard the origin question was dropped around the 9 Feb, and never heard of again, despite having the support of the US government.

👉🏻 Why Farrar organised both the publication of Peter Daszak’s Statement of Support and the release of Proximal Origin at a crucial time.

@DrTedros @gabbystern @JamieMetzl @mvankerkhove @schwartlanderb
3/8 and,

👉🏻 What the position and priorities of the US administration regarding the WHO, and getting access to data and isolates, were.

👉🏻 What the role of Fauci in all of this was, and what he did in support of Farrar but also for his own sake.

👉🏻 Who sent an anonymous letter to Jon Cohen at Science denouncing the Proximal Origin co-authors as impostors, in July 2020, and why.
@AshleyRindsberg @hfeldwisch @emilyakopp @Akselfrid @zeynep @StrackHaley @nicholsonbaker8
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Jun 8
Fauci did the biodefense work he was asked to do back in 2002/3 when this was largely transferred to him under the NIH.

That’s the issue.
And that’s why there is a consensus not to go after him, while avoiding the biodefense can of worms.
As China was started to steam ahead on its own in 2017-18, be it sampling, GoF or various synthetic biology experiments, EHA was starting to be left behind.

EHA tried to stay on the train with the GVP and DEFUSE. That failed, as the risk-reward equations looked bad.

But within the NIH grants framework, Daszak was able to obfuscate his difficulties just enough, while the NIH was clueless enough to keep the game going into new territories.

Then as the degrading picture became more clear, some on the Track II Biodefense side thought that this was basically the only chance left to keep a seat on that train.

So, just at the time when it was losing control, the NIH looked the other way.
The result is a screw-up that was predictable from day one (back in 2002/3).

Now the NIH finds itself with grant and policy breaches, with Fauci demonstrably trying to prevent an investigation.

But the fact is that this was a Track II Biodefense game, played within the NIH, with imperatives of its own.

It’s like trying to fit a square plug in a round hole.

@emilyakopp @R_H_Ebright
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Jun 6
1/8 The story of one of the worst policy failures in US history in a nutshell, as an introduction to my latest work on the USAID and EHA grants in South East Asia:

Left Behind:
@emilyakopp @natashaloder @zeynep @KatherineEban Image
2/8 Limited Options: Image
3/8 About Daszak's R01 grant: Image
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May 30
1/11 Question for @COVIDSelect:

How come that Daszak's R01 AI110964 lists San Pya clinic (Myanmar) and Institut Pasteur (Cambodia) as in-country partners, when in fact these confirmed that they were NEVER contacted by EHA and have no idea why they are showing up on the grant? Image
2/11 Not only that, but the April 2020 update by EHA positively states that San Pya Clinic and Institut Pasteur Cambodia performed their assigned tasks and sent their samples to the WIV.

@emilyakopp @KatherineEban
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3/11 I am not sure how you call this, but mis-reporting and likely fraud come to mind..

Not exactly a typo:
These entities were listed over and over in the grant documents, and are even attested as having done their work by EHA, but were never contacted by EHA!
@R_H_Ebright Image
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May 8
Daszak did 4 months of detention in 1986 for stealing a TV set, a hi-fi, a statue and some other items, so that he could indulge in his alcohol fuelled ‘fun’ at other people’s expense.

This fraud later managed to get hold of 100s millions of US taxpayers money.
Someone saw through him very early:

“Judge Lloyd-Jones told Daszak that he had been given more chances than most and had abused other people trust.”
Daszak was such a precocious character:

“He is being maintained by the State at a cost of GBP 1,500 per year, and this is the way he repays the state”.
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Apr 4
Another retraction for Robert Garry.

I may be losing track, but it is at least his third retraction.
There is also on expression of concern for one of his papers.
@thackerpd @KatherineEban @emilyakopp
See previous thread:
At this stage that should raise alarm bells all around.

Next one should be Proximal Origin.
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