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
For years, @EcoHealthNYC cultivated gov't officials at @cosmos_dc cocktail events, where EcoHealth pres. @peterdaszak worked to share podium w/ Fauci. "Cultivation events" were "great way to increase our visibility to federal funders," Daszak told his board. /3
.@EcoHealthNYC pursued risky @DARPA grant at point organization faced huge budget shortfall. @peterdaszak fumed at application mistakes, telling his staff they needed a "change in culture" as part of "mentaility to get money." bit.ly/3qQcHka /4
Once #COVID19 began, top US gov't officials suspected Wuhan lab leak. Dr. Redfield, then CDC director, urged Fauci to investigate lab leak. He tells @VanityFair he was then excluded from confidential deliberations: "They made a P.R. decision...to have one narrative only." /5
In heated @NIH meeting to discuss @jbloom_lab preprint on deleted #SARSCoV2 sequences, @K_G_Andersen proposed to delete or revise preprint before it became public, according to Bloom's account of meeting obtained by @VanityFair. bit.ly/3KcGSdf /6
Story raises ? about gov't oversight/transparency & commitment to probing #COVIDorigins. @Commissioncovid chair @JeffDSachs told @VanityFair there needs to be “independent scientific investigation” into “possible role” in pandemic of NIH, @EcoHealthNYC, Wuhan Inst. Virology. /7
Story draws on #FOIA documents from @BuzzFeed @JasonLeopold @theintercept @fastlerner @USRightToKnow @WhiteCoatWaste @GOPoversight and others. /8
Also grateful to many experts (not all quoted) who gave me time: @sergeilkp @jbloom_lab, @JeffDSachs, @DrMattMcCarthy, W. Ian Lipkin, Jack Nunberg, Dr. Michael Imperiale, Dr. Gary Solis, @profamirattaran @DavidRelman @Biol4Ever @JamieMetzl @Ayjchan @gdemaneuf @franciscodeasis /9
An excellent @VanityFair team worked long hours helping to land this story. My brilliant editor @mike_hogan, fact checker extraordinaire Brendan Barr, terrific research help from @RebeccaAydin + Stan Friedman. And terrific input from the top @radhikajones
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