Today, @COVIDSelect released a staff-level report recommending EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak be formally debarred and criminally investigated as a result of his actions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report also exposes serious, systemic weaknesses at the National Institutes of Health that enabled EcoHealth to fund dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.
KEY FINDINGS🧵👇
🚨EcoHealth used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Overwhelming primary source documents and credible firsthand testimony confirm this finding.
🚨EcoHealth violated the terms and conditions of its NIH grant by failing to report a potentially dangerous gain-of-function experiment conducted at the WIV.
Evidence shows that Dr. Daszak was aware of this potentially dangerous research, yet he failed to inform the NIH.
🚨EcoHealth also violated NIH grant requirements when it failed to submit a required research update report until nearly TWO YEARS after the NIH deadline.
This report contained details about EcoHealth's dangerous gain-of-function work at the WIV.
🚨The Trump Administration identified serious concerns with EcoHealth Alliance’s funding of the WIV and instructed NIH to fix the problem. Then, NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant.
This intervention likely prevented EcoHealth from continuing to conduct dangerous research.
🚨NIH is currently violating the terms of the WIV’s formal debarment by funding EcoHealth’s research.
When Dr. Daszak applied for grant reinstatement, he omitted a material fact and misled the NIH about the location of untested samples.
Read the full report titled “An Evaluation of the Evidence Surrounding EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.’s Research Activities” here:
🚨The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is referring Former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for criminal prosecution.
Evidence suggests Andrew Cuomo knowingly and willfully made materially false statements about New York’s COVID-19 nursing home disaster and the ensuing cover-up.
The Department of Justice must immediately charge Andrew Cuomo with making false statements to Congress.
During Andrew Cuomo’s transcribed interview in June 2024, he made THREE materially false statements.
@COVIDSelect’s referral provides @TheJusticeDept with overwhelming evidence that Andrew Cuomo made each of these statements knowingly and willfully🧵👇
FALSE STATEMENT #1: When asked if he was involved in the drafting of the July 6, 2020 NY State Dept. of Health Report that was used to combat criticism of his COVID-19 nursing home policies, Andrew Cuomo testified “no.”
EVIDENCE: Documents and emails show that Andrew Cuomo edited the Report by hand multiple times👇
New evidence suggests that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attempted to inappropriately influence the testimony of a @COVIDSelect witness.
Here's how🧵👇
Since 2021, Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly contacted a former top aide — Dr. Jim Malatras — following major developments in the Select Subcommittee’s nursing home investigation.
Dr. Malatras described this communication as a “flare—or signal—alerting me that [Andrew Cuomo] was aware that the House Select Subcommittee had requested that I testify.”
Dr. Malatras also described feeling “uncomfortable” when the former Governor attempted to discuss the nursing home investigation on a phone call.
This pattern of communication raises serious concerns that Andrew Cuomo was attempting to influence Dr. Malatras' testimony and obstruct the Select Subcommittee's investigation.
Today, @COVIDSelect added a new finding and a 15-page addendum to its recent New York nursing home memo to account for this evidence.
Today, @COVIDSelect released a staff memo that holds former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff responsible for recklessly exposing elderly Americans to COVID-19 in New York nursing homes from March 25, 2020 to May 10, 2020.
KEY FINDINGS🧵👇
🚨Mr. Cuomo and his team were involved in the decision to issue the March 25 Directive that directed nursing homes to admit COVID-positive and potentially COVID-positive patients.
Former, high-ranking New York State Department of Health Officials testified that the decision to issue the disastrous March 25 Directive was prompted by Governor Cuomo's Office.
🚨The March 25 Directive was rescinded in response to public criticism — not because of a change in medical science or a recognition of wrongdoing.
Mr. Cuomo testified that the Directive was terminated and replaced by an Executive Order because of "public relations" and because New Yorkers were "nervous" and "concerned." Understandably.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will testify publicly before Congress for the FIRST TIME regarding his COVID-19 nursing home policies at a @COVIDSelect hearing on September 10, 2024.
In June, @COVIDSelect led a closed-door, transcribed interview of Mr. Cuomo to investigate New York's issuance of deadly guidance that forced nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit contagious COVID-19 patients.
Here are the most important takeaways🧵👇
✖️Mr. Cuomo was shockingly callous when discussing New York's nursing home mortality rate.
He testified, "…let's say there's a 3,000 [deaths] differential, 2500. Who cares? What difference does it make in any dimension to anyone about anything?"
Yesterday, @COVIDSelect led a closed-door, transcribed interview of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. His testimony centered on New York's issuance of deadly guidance that forced nursing homes to admit contagious COVID-19 patients.
Here's the readout🧵👇
✔️Mr. Cuomo was shockingly callous when discussing New York's nursing home mortality rate.
He testified, "6500 vs. 9000 [deaths] — What is the difference?"
✔️Mr. Cuomo claimed he was unaware of the existence of the disastrous March 25, 2020 "must-admit" nursing home order until nearly a month after it was issued.
Either Mr. Cuomo is rewriting history, or he was unaware as to what was happening under his leadership.