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Mar 5 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Emails just released by @GOPoversight reflect how @NIH leaders helped shepherd Proximal Origins paper through publication to help refute #LabLeak hypothesis. Influential scientists worked publicly to discredit the theory but privately thought was oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl… /1
credible. I raised these questions in March 2022 in @VanityFair, asking: "Why top scientists linked arms to tamp down public speculation about a lab leak...remains unclear." /2 vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/t…
I should add that the "new" Ian Lipkin email first appeared in my @VanityFair story from 3/22, which we quoted: “Given the scale of the bat CoV research pursued there and the site of emergence of the first human cases we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess.”

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Feb 26
Today, a @WSJ story disclosed that US Dep't of Energy has concluded #COVID19 "most likely arose" from a lab leak, citing classified intel recently provided to @WhiteHouse and key congress members. Some thoughts on where this revelation leaves us: 🧵👇 wsj.com/articles/covid… /1
It does not mean #COVID19 necessarily came from a Wuhan lab. Rather, it underscores the need for ongoing investigation into an open question: did #COVID19 spill over from an infected animal at a Wuhan market, or result from an accidental lab leak? @WHO has long been clear: /2
Both hypotheses remain possible. Any claim that the question is settled, in either direction, is untrue. But as I first reported for @VanityFair back in June 2021, Qs about a lab leak were sidelined early on inside the US gov't: vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t… /3
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Oct 29, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: @VanityFair/@ProPublica special report from inside Senate #COVID19 origins investigation. @jeffykao + I got 100s of pages of Senate research findings, 500+ documents from inside Wuhan Institute of Virology, consulted CCP experts: vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/c… 🧵👇 /1
Our 5-month investigation offers most detailed picture of critical months before #COVID19 outbreak: intense scientific pressure at WIV, mounting safety issues, undisclosed documents referencing Nov. 2019 biosafety incident there. Same story, also here: propublica.org/article/senate… /2
.@GOPHELP released its report on COVID origins yesterday: bit.ly/3fh4LpC. Only 35 pgs., it concludes SARS-CoV-2 “more likely than not" came from research incident. The report omitted a 236-page analysis from @StateDept analyst who unearthed explosive WIV docs. /3
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Mar 31, 2022
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
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Dec 23, 2021
Breaking: Pleased to share my @VanityFair special report on @WhiteHouse deliberations over #COVID19 rapid testing. In an October 22 meeting, the administration got a detailed 10-pg plan to ramp up rapid testing to "prevent holiday COVID surge." vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/t… /1
Central to that plan, presented by @TheCOVIDCollab, @RockefellerFdn + others, was a "Bold Plan for Impact," namely: "Every American Household To Receive Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays/New Year." /2
The @WHCOVIDResponse rejected the idea as impossible to scale, given the limited manufacturing capacity at that time, and opted for "small ball" initiatives instead, @StevenCOVIDdoc, who was at the Oct. 22 meeting told me. /3
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Oct 22, 2021
My latest @VanityFair story: on significant @NIH admission that the agency funded risky #coronavirus research by @EcoHealthNYC and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/n… /1
In July hearing, Fauci denied to @SenRandPaul such research took place: "I totally resent the lie you are propagating." @NIH spokesperson tells me Fauci had been "entirely truthful," and had not yet seen @EcoHealthNYC report spelling out that research. /2
Yet @EcoHealthNYC says it sent research data to @NIH in 2018. Pointing to reporting "irregularities," @DavidRelman tells me this is "another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance of transparency." /3
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Sep 9, 2021
Breaking: my @VanityFair special report is now live, a deep dive into "Operation Warp Speed on steroids," the Biden Administration's lurching effort to vaccinate the world. vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/h… /1
With roiling conflict between @WHCOVIDResponse and health agencies, an official says delays led "tens of millions" of people overseas to go unvaccinated. An Administration official calls the critics "ankle biters."
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As MDs and states pushed to donate surplus doses overseas, U.S. vaccines are getting wasted. An internal @COVID19 report update pegs vaccine "wastage" at 34 million doses. /3
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