A few thoughts on public health risks ahead🧵👇: Since my @VanityFair story on US govt's botched #H5N1 response last month, things have gotten worse: 616 dairy herds in 15 states infected; 53 human cases including today's news of a child /1 @RickABrightvanityfair.com/news/story/ins… infected in CA, w/ no known animal exposure. In Canada, the #H5N1 genetic sequence from a critically ill teenager shows worrying mutations that indicate potentially easier human transmission. Global experts like @Tuliodna are stunned by the /2 @RickABrightstatnews.com/2024/11/18/bir…

EXCLUSIVE: My latest @VanityFair investigation examines why the federal response to the growing #H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows became marred by obfuscation + an unspoken `Don't test, don't tell' policy on America's farms, and how /1 vanityfair.com/news/story/ins… .@USDA's dual role - to safeguard livestock health + America's $174.2 B agriculture trade played a role. Early in the outbreak, USDA veterinary employees began calling state colleagues, to say they'd been muzzled by their own agency and could no longer communicate directly. /2

BREAKING: How did more than 10,000 units of counterfeit #Ozempic enter U.S. drug supply w/ fake repetitive serial numbers, undetected? In my deep-dive @VanityFair investigation, I unravel Lot NAR0074's mystery, and delve into America's Rx gray market /1vanityfair.com/news/story/cou… On Dec. 21, @US_FDA alerted America: counterfeit Ozempic had been detected in U.S. drug supply. No one should sell, distribute, use any Ozempic pens labeled w/ lot number NAR0074/serial number 430834149057: . Where had the fakes come from? /2fda.gov/drugs/drug-saf…

Breaking: @HHSGov has recommended that @EcoHealthNYC - the U.S. science nonprofit that helped fund risky coronavirus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology - be debarred from further federal research funding. Why does this matter? A look back at some key moments.🧵👇/1

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.@EcoHealthNYC played an early role in branding the notion of a #COVIDorigins lab leak as a baseless conspiracy. In a Feb '20 statement in @TheLancet, it condemned "conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” /2vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t…

BREAKING: Out today, our 2-year @statnews investigation into a Mount Sinai research study called Living Brain Project (LBP), which biopsies brain tissue from living patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) to make new disease discoveries 🧵👇/1statnews.com/2024/05/01/bra… STAT's reporting found Mount Sinai researchers made statements to patients and regulators that 8 neurosurgeons - 4 consulted by @US_FDA/4 interviewed by STAT - contend were untrue or ambiguous, when they said brain biopsies resulted in no greater tissue loss than standard DBS. /2

Exclusive: for my latest in @VanityFair, I reviewed closed-door testimony that University of North Carolina coronavirologist Ralph Baric gave to @COVIDSelect in January. /1vanityfair.com/news/story/ral… Amid ongoing Qs re. #COVID19 origins, Baric's testimony has been of intense interest, due to his collaborations with Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scientists. He spoke to Congressional investigators extensively about WIV's poor biosafety protocols. /2

Sources have asked what I think of new @USRightToKnow post: @EcoHealthNYC aimed to get @DARPA grant $$ 4 risky coronavirus work, by concealing that some would be done w/ low safeguards at Wuhan Inst. of Virology, not in NC as purported. A 🧵👇 /1

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1st: h/t to @emilyakopp for persisting on #COVID19 origins. The story is toxic to most news outlets due to (false) claims that it's somehow right-wing/anti-science to investigate how upwards of 10-million people died. Only a small band of journos continues to actually report: /2

EXCLUSIVE: My latest @VanityFair special report uncovers an almost decade-long trail of warnings issued by @ENERGY to @NIH, other gov't agencies, about risk that US-funded biology research could be misused by overseas partners. /1vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/c… In mid-2019, just months before pandemic, Dep. Energy Secretary @dan_brouillette warned @NIAIDNews official coronavirus research it was funding at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) risked being misappropriated by China for military use. /2

NEW: My latest @VanityFair special report tells the inside story of a skirmish over early #SARSCoV2 data from Wuhan market bet. 2 leading scientific teams: China & international. China's former CDC director George Gao spoke extensively w/ vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/r… /1 @VanityFair, sharing some of most extended remarks to a Western media outlet since the pandemic’s onset. He says #COVID19's origin remains unknown and no possibility, including lab leak, can be ruled out: “I think everything's possible." /2

NEW: My latest @VanityFair special report takes a deep dive into @GovRonDeSantis' 180 pivot on #COVID19 vaccines, from promoting to investigating them. Will anti-vax policy become an official part of GOP platform? /1 vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/d… A Florida statewide grand jury launched by DeSantis is now investigating whether @moderna_tx and @pfizer made false claims for profit about the efficacy of #COVID19 vaccines. It will report results in Jan. 2024, potentially in time to influence GOP primary voters. /2

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

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

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

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

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

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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BREAKING: my months-long @VanityFair investigation on #COVID19 origins is live. Interviews w/ over 40 people, review of hundreds of pgs. of U.S. gov't docs. incl. internal memos, meeting minutes, email correspondence, found.... vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t… /1 Conflicts of interest, in part from large US gov't grants supporting controversial virology research, known as "gain-of-function," hampered U.S. gov't investigation into #COVID19 origins, and legit. questions on #LabLeak hypothesis, at every step. /2

"Right now, I'm scared," warns @CDCDirector on press call, emotion in her voice: 10% increase in cases over last week; deaths rising to 1,000 per day. Warns of European trajectory. #COVID19. @CDCDirector Calls on the press to sound the alarm. Warns unmistakably of a 4th surge.

SCOOP: My latest
@VanityFair
investigation chronicles the battle in the Trump Admin's final days over which federal employees would get scarce #COVID19 vaccinations. vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/h… #ShotChasers (corrected link) /1 A closely guarded @WhiteHouse list attracted almost every stripe of would-be line jumper, from reps of Cabinet secretaries to young desk jockeys to those claiming ties to @jaredkushner. /2

SCOOP: My latest @VanityFair investigation chronicles the battle in the Trump Admin's final days over which federal employees would get scarce #COVID19 vaccinations. vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/h… #ShotChasers A closely guarded @WhiteHouse list attracted almost every stripe of would-be line jumper, from reps of Cabinet secretaries to young desk jockeys to those claiming ties to @jaredkushner. /2

SCOOP: My latest @VanityFair investigation tells the inside story of how the #COVID19 vaccine rollout devolved into chaos: turf wars, infighting, a muzzled @CDCgov and ideological embrace of a hands-off fed gov't role. vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/h… /1 Gen. Perna focused intently on photo-op of "N-hour sequence," delivery trucks rolling from warehouse within 24 hours of @US_FDA authorization. In one tense meeting, his staff had to explain that CDC had a different metric for success: getting shots into arms. /2