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?"
✖️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.
✖️Mr. Cuomo repeatedly deflected responsibility for issuing the nursing home directive.
He testified that nursing homes had "an escape valve," and the must-admit language mandated by the state did not actually force nursing homes to admit COVID positive patients.
✖️Mr. Cuomo testified that he only regretted the March 25, 2020 order because nursing homes were “confused by it.”
He clarified further that he doesn't "accept the premise that they were actually confused by it."
.@COVIDSelect also conducted transcribed interviews with nine, high-ranking, former Cuomo Administration officials.
Transcripts from all interviews — including Mr. Cuomo's — will be released ahead of the hearing next week.
Mr. Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On September 10, Americans will have the opportunity to hear directly from the former governor about his Administration's nursing home policies.
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.
Today, @COVIDSelect released the transcript from Dr. Anthony Fauci's two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview. On Monday, Dr. Fauci will testify publicly for the first time since retirement.
Key takeaways from his closed-door testimony🧵👇
✔️SOCIAL DISTANCING: The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation forced on Americans by federal health officials was arbitrary and not based on science.
Dr. Fauci testified that this guidance “sort of just appeared.”
✔️MASKING: Dr. Fauci testified that he did not recall any supporting evidence for masking children.
Mask-wearing has been associated with severe learning loss and speech development issues in America’s children.
Today, @COVIDSelect requested access to Dr. Fauci's personal email account and cellphone records. New evidence suggests that Dr. Fauci used a "secret back channel" to communicate about official COVID-19 information.
New evidence🧵👇
1. Dr. Fauci’s Senior Advisor — Dr. David Morens — wrote to disgraced EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak...
“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work…He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
2. Then, Dr. Morens references the "secret back channel" he would use to communicate with Dr. Fauci outside the public eye...
"I suggested Arthur try to interview Tony directly and connected him to our 'secret' back channel."
Today, @COVIDSelect released a staff-level memo exposing allegations of wrongdoing and illegal activity by Dr. Fauci's Senior Advisor, Dr. David Morens.
New emails included in the memo incriminate Dr. Morens in:
✖️Undermining the operations of the U.S. government
✖️Unlawfully deleting federal COVID-19 records
✖️Using a personal email to avoid the Freedom of Information Act
✖️Repeatedly acting unbecoming of a federal employee.
✖️Likely lying to Congress on multiple occasions
Key takeaways🧵👇
🚨Dr. Fauci may have used his personal email to conduct official business, according to new evidence.
"I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him..."
"I suggested Arthur try to interview Tony directly and connected him to our 'secret' back channel."
🚨Dr. Fauci was potentially aware of, and may have engaged in, undermining U.S. government operations by assisting Dr. Morens’s efforts to backchannel internal @NIH info to EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak.
"Peter, I will be meeting with Tony about this later on."
Today, @COVIDSelect released the transcript from former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins's transcribed interview. Dr. Collins helped lead America's COVID-19 pandemic response.
Key Takeaways🧵👇
✔️Dr. Collins testified that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any science or data.
✔️Dr. Collins stated that the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.
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.