Thread by @chrisprcas

Senate Minority Staff Oversight's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee led by @SenatorBurr re: #OriginsOfCovid report was released today. I have seen a lot of discussion about this so I thought I'd chime in on what I find very odd.

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The Burr report states, "The objective was to review publicly available, open-source information to examine the two prevailing theories of origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.."

However, there was one very important document that Burr & Co failed to review, cite or even mention. Why?

https://twitter.com/chrisprcas/status/1584666821919412224

The Burr report's conclusion references: the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, the COVID- 19 Lancet Commission, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence 90-Day Assessment on the COVID-19 Origins.

Why not the McCaul/HFAC report?

A report from @RepMcCaul and @HouseForeign on the origins of COVID-19 published well over a year ago would surely be a document of interest to such an investigation and is also publicly accessible and open source. What was it about the McCaul/HFAC report? Why omit it's findings?

House/McCaul report (84pgs):
gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/upl…

Senate/Burr report (35pgs):
help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

See for yourself. One could not help but notice some very key differences.

Why did Burr & Co. not look at this information? Why was it left out of the Senate report?

https://twitter.com/chrisprcas/status/1585675000937607168

@cathymcmorris @RepGuthrie @SenRonJohnson @RepMGriffith had also been submitting inquiries that corroborate a lot of the strange behavior involving EHA and Peter Daszak wouldn't they perhaps be consulted when Burr & Co were analyzing available information?

Burr: "Over the last 15 months we reviewed several hundred publicly available scientific studies, interviewed several dozen subject matter experts, and analyzed previous reports and studies on the possible origins of the virus."

15 months and no HFAC/McCaul report review?

The timing of the release of this report from Burr is also odd. With whistleblower testimomy from former EcoHealth Alliance VP Dr. Andrew G. Huff officially going forward that corroborates everything from @HouseForeign / @RepMcCaul's report this feels like damage control.

https://twitter.com/AGHuff/status/1583259913500782592

My questions to @SenatorBurr & Co:

• Was the House report simply overlooked or was it intentionally disregarded?

• If it was overlooked will you and the HELP committee give it the review and analysis it deserves?

• If it was discarded, what were the reasons for doing so?

My question to @RepMcCaul and @HouseForeign:

• During the past 15 months of the ongoing investigation by Senator Burr and the Health, Education, Labor & Pension Committee did anyone from their group reach out or contact you regarding the August 2021 #OriginsOfCovid report?

@RogerPielkeJr thank you for making this tweet a year ago and attempting to raise awareness of the House report findings. Curious what you think about the Burr report and how it compares to the HFAC/McCaul report. The differences are striking. Would love to see discussion on this

https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1422194812720082944

@NewDayForNJ hope you don't mimd reaching out like this but you reported on the HFAC #COVID19 origins report last year and I was very curious that you think about the new Burr & Co report and what you think about the omissions. Cheers!

https://twitter.com/NewDayForNJ/status/1422248625816604675

@carriesheffield I wanted to also bring this to your attention since you reported on the HFAC/McCaul findings as well. I wanted to get some more eyes on this from folks who are familiar with the House report to comment on the clear omissions from Burr & Co's latest report. Thanks

https://twitter.com/carriesheffield/status/1422553563994132487

Thank you Alexis for summing up the very remarkable key difference between the House/McCaul and Senate/Burr reports. I hope that this opens the floor for some in depth discussions as we search for answers together.

https://twitter.com/AlexisBadenMaye/status/1585686860319232001

wsj.com/articles/covid…

Hey @WSJ I realized that you have also failed to report on the @HouseForeign and @RepMcCaul #OriginsOfCovid report. This would have been a huge story at the time (it still is) but not a peep about their investigation? Yet you report on this one? Why?

It's very interesting that this Senate GOP Burr & Co. report gets released on the same day that lawyers are actively negotiating litigation over at UNC over the release of Ralph Baric's work. Burr's report omits the findings of House/McCaul report that mention UNC, Baric & Shi.

https://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/1585617112172843010

@kengann101 very biased coverage indeed. Why is legacy media @nytimes pumping out this Burr report fluff piece that cleary omits critical findings that were already public record in the House / McCaul Covid Origins report. Would love to know your thoughts on this thread thanks!

https://twitter.com/kengann101/status/1585799395164844032

@RickABright if you have time to see this thread, what do you think its going to take for the House and Senate to agree on a COVID origin consensus and why wouldnt the Burr report include the HFAC/McCaul findings when it's already public record? Thanks for all your work!

Strange this Burr report comes out amid ongoing investigations of insider trading. How much did Senator Burr make due to privileged insider information surrounding the coronavirus pandemic?

pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2022/08/30/rep…

citizensforethics.org/wp-content/upl…

Allegations include violating the STOCK Act insider trading laws and ethics rules when they sold millions of dollars in stock assets after receiving nonpublic briefings about the coronavirus outbreak.