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Vivek is responding to my reporting. He isn’t being honest. He didn’t just say something “stupid” on a podcast. He sent members of Congress a memo advocating against lifting lockdowns and for creating a national registry. A company he created pitched the idea to the FDA and worked with the federal government on it.
Here’s a timeline:
-February 2020: Datavant, a healthcare data company created by Vivek, recruits George W. Bush-Era FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.
-March 2020: Datavant begins spearheading a registry of COVID-19 patients by pooling medical records from across the country (WSJ).
-April 3, 2020: Vivek says on the Rockefeller Client Insights podcast that he supports a system where people would be “segregated” under a national testing regime.
-April 8, 2020: Datavant is in touch with the FDA about a “proposed registry” that “would aim to include every patient who has been tested for COVID-19” (WSJ).
It was around this time that Vivek circulated the memo I obtained to members of Congress in which he argued against lifting lockdowns and for implementing universal testing to determine who could go back to life. He concluded by proposing a “public-private” partnership, which is what his company Datavant pitched to the federal government.
-November 2020: Vivek’s company announced that it was collaborating on gathering patient data with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
Vivek didn’t just support lockdowns—he tried to profit from it while collaborating with the very “regime” he claims to oppose. Then he tried to bury it, like he tried to bury details about his background by paying a Wikipedia editor to sanitize his biography weeks before declaring his candidacy.
Here’s a timeline:
-February 2020: Datavant, a healthcare data company created by Vivek, recruits George W. Bush-Era FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.
-March 2020: Datavant begins spearheading a registry of COVID-19 patients by pooling medical records from across the country (WSJ).
-April 3, 2020: Vivek says on the Rockefeller Client Insights podcast that he supports a system where people would be “segregated” under a national testing regime.
-April 8, 2020: Datavant is in touch with the FDA about a “proposed registry” that “would aim to include every patient who has been tested for COVID-19” (WSJ).
It was around this time that Vivek circulated the memo I obtained to members of Congress in which he argued against lifting lockdowns and for implementing universal testing to determine who could go back to life. He concluded by proposing a “public-private” partnership, which is what his company Datavant pitched to the federal government.
-November 2020: Vivek’s company announced that it was collaborating on gathering patient data with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
Vivek didn’t just support lockdowns—he tried to profit from it while collaborating with the very “regime” he claims to oppose. Then he tried to bury it, like he tried to bury details about his background by paying a Wikipedia editor to sanitize his biography weeks before declaring his candidacy.
https://twitter.com/vivekgramaswamy/status/1730011191768977629
He and his team have to pretend this is about the podcast because what I actually wrote is far more damning. I knew they would. That’s why I wrote this at the end:
Nothing says TRUTH like hiring someone to erase inconvenient details about your biography right before you run for president.
But the fact Vivek is not only responding to me but lying about what I wrote, which is available for anyone to see, proves that I am over target and this hit hurts.
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