Planning and Execution of a Pandemic and the Militarization of Medicine and Pandemic Response (update)
Planning and Execution of a Pandemic and the Militarization of Medicine and Pandemic Response (update)
As most people seem to look at COVID and biological weapons research through lenses tinted by Fauci or Gates we need to look at this with a broader brush.
We begin with the fusion of the HHS, Dod, DHS and Pharma, which began with Project BioShield . This originated in the President's State of the Union Address in January of 2003. It derives from the events of September 11/Anthrax Attacks and from the concern that the pharmaceutical industry and the American government historically have not worked together to address the threat of bioterrorism. In his State of the Union message, the President announced legislation that he was sending to Congress under the name Project BioShield
Loe and behold at the same time an outbreak of SARS was just beginning and would soon be headline news and gain public support for the legislation
In February the deadly agent ricin was found in the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
As a result starting in 2004, the U.S. devoted $5.6 billion to fund Project Bioshield, running through 2013, and another $2.8 billion of funding through 2018. Project Bioshield was designed to prepare the United States against a bio attack, including provisions for the stockpiling and distribution of vaccines.
In 2003 Congressman Henry Waxman asks Fauci: “Is there a potential for dual-use where the research of biodefense may well lead us to research breakthroughs for other diseases?”
“I think it is not only a potential, Mr. Waxman, I think it is inevitable that there will be an important contribution to the research that we put into emerging and reemerging diseases to inform us about biodefense research, and it is without a doubt that the research that goes into biodefense will help us with naturally occurring,” Fauci responds. “Because as a matter of fact, as we have discussed before, as you know we feel that deliberately released microbes is just another form of emerging and reemerging disease. Instead of occurring naturally, it is done with malice and deliberately, but the end result can be the same.”
It Amended the Public Health Service Act to allow the Director of the NIH to act through the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) -Dr Fauci, to provide grants for the modernization and construction of research facilities. Increases the Federal share of such NIAID-funded projects.
Provides funding for the National Vaccine Program and adds the Secretary of Homeland Security(DHS) to the working group on the prevention, preparedness, and response to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Actto allow the Secretary to authorize the use of a drug, device, or biological product intended for emergency use, specifically allowing the use of unapproved products, or the unapproved use of approved products, upon a determination by DHS that there is or is a significant potential for a domestic emergency, or upon a determination by DHS of a public health emergency that affects or may affect national security and that involves a specified agent or a specified disease that may be attributable to such agent
Directs the HHS Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the activities of their respective Departments coordinate, complement, and do not unnecessarily duplicate programs designed to protect the homeland from biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear agents. Directs such Secretaries to each appoint an official to coordinate such programs for their respective Departments.
2015-globalist billionaire Bill Gates called for the militarization of the health system .
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1502918
2015-The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense was established . The Founding Staff Director was Robert B. Kadlec, M.D., infamous for his role in the Dark Winter Exercises conducted before the Anthrax Attacks
https://biodefensecommission.org/reports/a-national-blueprint-for-biodefense/
https://biodefensecommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/NationalBluePrintNov2018-03.pdf
Commissioners
Joseph I. Lieberman, Chair
Thomas J. Ridge, Chair
Donna E. Shalala
Thomas A. Daschle
James C. Greenwood
Kenneth L. Wainstein
Ex Officio Members
Yonah Alexander, PhD
William B. Karesh, DVM
Rachel Levinson, MA
I. Lewis Libby, JD
Gerald W. Parker, DVM, PhD
George Poste, DVM, PhD, DSc
Tevi Troy, PhD
Commission Staff
Ellen P. Carlin, D.V.M., Co-Director
Asha M. George, Dr.P.H., Co-Director
Patricia de la Sota, Staff Assistant
Stephanie Marks, J.D., Intern
Founding Staff Director
Robert B. Kadlec, M.D.
2015-Ralph Baric , Shih Zheng Li of WIV and the University of Texas Medical Branch lab’s Vineet Menachery brazenly published their alarming 2015 study—describing their reckless experiments to breed pandemic bat coronaviruses that could spread via respiratory droplets in humanized mice—they omitted mentioning, in their initial online version of the article, that one of the funding sources was USAID-EPT-PREDICT. Apparently hoping to cover its tracks, PREDICT had laundered its grant through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.
DARPA director, Michael Callahan launched the PREDICT project in 2009 following Jeremy Farrar’s fake bird flu pandemic. PREDICT appeared to be a reincarnation of the CIA’s Argus project under the cover of USAID. PREDICT is the largest single source of funding to Daszak,
Michael V. Callahan and Peter Daszak appeared as coauthors on a paper published in the Virology Journal and titled “Diversity of Coronavirus in Bats from Eastern Thailand.”
2017 alone, DARPA laundered at least $6.5 million through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to fund experiments at the Wuhan lab. DARPA funded additional gain-of-function experiments at Fort Detrick and other biosecurity research at Battelle’s laboratory at St. Joseph, Missouri. Beginning in 2013, DARPA also financed the key technologies for the Moderna vaccine.
2017-In May, the health ministries for the world’s wealthiest twenty (G20) nations assembled for the first time, gathering in Berlin to participate in a Joint Exercise Scenario with an imagined China responding to a contagion dubbed MARS, for “Mountain Associated Respiratory Virus.”185 (Mars is also the Roman god of war.) German governmental institutions collaborated to produce the simulation with the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, the WHO, and the Robert Koch Institution (RKI).
The ministers hailed from the United States, Russia, India, China, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, and the European Union.
Tom Price was HHS Secretary at the time before his resignation in September
The exercises’ two moderators also worked closely with the Gates Foundation; David Heymann served simultaneously as chair of the UK’s Centre on Global Health Security and as an epidemiologist with the Gates-funded London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Heymann also sits with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on the Mérieux Foundation USA Board. BioMérieux is the French company that built the Wuhan lab.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Heymann has chaired the WHO’s Scientific Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.
The other moderator of the 2017 simulation was Professor Ilona Kickbusch, a member of Gates’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (Fauci and CDC Director George Gao are members)
Over two days, the global health ministry officials and other “guest countries and international representatives” bore witness to a “timeline of the unfolding pandemic,” known as MARS, a novel respiratory virus, spread from busy markets in a mountainous border region of an unnamed but China-like country—to nations around the globe.
In essence only draconian clampdowns by neighboring governments and heroic WHO technocrats orchestrating a tightly choreographed centralized global response can save humanity from a chaotic dystopian apocalypse.
2017- January, Fauci predicts there will be an “outbreak” during Trumps administration
2017-Trump leaves UNESCO and its legally binding Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights forbidding medical experiments without informed consent
2017- DARPAS -Pandemic Prevention Platform created and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
The Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program aims to support military readiness and global stability through pursuit of novel methods to dramatically accelerate discovery, integration, pre-clinical testing, and manufacturing of medical countermeasures against infectious diseases. P3 confronts the reality that Department of Defense (DoD) personnel are not only deployed around the world for routine operations, but are often among the first responders to outbreaks of emerging or re-emerging disease with pandemic potential (e.g., Ebola). P3 aims specifically to develop a scalable, adaptable, rapid response platform capable of producing relevant numbers of doses against any known or previously unknown infectious threat within 60 days of identification of such a threat in order to keep the outbreak from escalating and decrease disruptions to the military and homeland. State-of-the-art medical countermeasures often take many months or even years to develop, produce, distribute, and administer.
The P3 platform would cut response time to weeks and stay within the window of relevance for containing an outbreak.
P3 focuses on rapid discovery, characterization, production, testing, and delivery of efficacious DNA- and RNA-encoded medical countermeasures, a foundational technology pioneered by DARPA under the Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics (ADEPT)program that provides the body with instructions on how to immediately begin producing protective antibodies against a given threat.
2017-Robert Kadlec appointed by Trump as Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
He had been an adviser on biological warfare to the Rumsfeld-led Pentagon in the days after 9/11. Kadlec’s official biography states that he “contributed to the FBI investigation of the anthrax letter attacks,” though it’s unclear exactly what those contributions were, beyond having met at least once with scientists at Fort Detrick in November 2001.
Whatever his contributions were, Kadlec has long been an emphatic supporter of the official narrative regarding Bruce Ivins, who he has referred to as a “deranged scientist” and the sole culprit behind the attacks. Kadlec has also used the official narrative about Ivins to assert that bioweapons have been “democratized,” which he argues means that weaponized pathogens can be wielded by essentially anyone with “a few thousand dollars” and enough time on their hands
Kadlec was also the Founding Director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense and Deputy Staff Director for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 2015 -2017 and is a Dark Winter Exercise Veteran who coined the term Dark Winter and had just sold his stock in anthrax Vaccine maker Emergent Biosolutions who would be one of the biggest recipients of BARDA contracts under Kadlecs tenure as Trumps ASPR
2017-HHS Secretary Alex Azar , appointed by Trump after Tom Price resigned in September was involved in the FBI botched Anthrax investigation. In addition, Azar stated at a White House press briefing in 2018 that he had been “personally involved in much of managing the response [to the anthrax attacks]” as then-General counsel to HHS.
2017-World Bank issues 300 million in Pandemic Bonds. Default triggered should a pandemic be declared before July 2020. Gates funded WHO declares Pandemic on March 11-2020 after over 110,000 cases, in over 110 countries. Note all the 11’s here
2017- CEPI was founded in Davos by the governments of Norway and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the World Economic Forum in 2017. Its mission is to stimulate and accelerate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and enable access to these vaccines for people during outbreaks.
The CEO is the former director of BARDA ( U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Office. The director is an ex employee of the world bank.
2017, October SPARs pandemic scenario published by John Hopkins , eerily similar to COVID -19
2017-December 12, Public Law 115-92, enacted and authorized the Department of Defense (DoD) to request, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide, assistance to expedite development and the FDA’s review of products to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions facing American military personnel
2017-December 19: The NIH and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID restore federal funding for gain-of-function research, ending the moratorium that began in October 2014
2017 December. Trumps National Security Strategy specifically mentions pandemics that “Take lives, generate economic losses, and contribute to the loss of confidence in government institutions”
2018-January 24, President Trump arrives in Davos, Switzerland to attend the 2018 Davos World Economic Forum. He is the first U.S. President to personally attend the annual Davos conference since President Bill Clinton in 2000. U.S. Treasury SecretarySteve Mnuchin is head of the U.S. delegation, which is the largest ever to attend the forum.
2018-Gates offered White house Director of Science and Technology Policy Job by Trump. Gates declined.
2018 February 1, the Washington Post reported that 'CDC is to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak' “The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely
Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo.
2018 President Donald Trump issued a national biodefense strategy that repeals Bush and Obama administration policies and installs an HHS-led committee to survey gaps in responding to biological threats.
The committee includes officials from the Pentagon, Agriculture and Homeland Security departments and will review capabilities across the intelligence community and 15 executive branch agencies.
The National Biodefense Strategy discusses the following:
Deliberate biological threats
Pathogens stored in laboratories that lack appropriate security
Intentional misuse of advances in science and technology
The support and preservation of Continuity of Operations,
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/National-Biodefense-Strategy.pdf
2018 January 16, FDA and DoD announced the launch of a joint program to prioritize the efficient development of safe and effective medical products intended for deployed American military personnel.
2018- DARPA’s Preventing Emerging pathogenic diseases program(PREEMPT) was announced in April . PREEMPT focuses specifically on animal reservoirs for disease, specifically bats.
Duke is a key partner of DARPA’s Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program. The first step of the Duke/DARPA program involves the discovery of potentially threatening viruses and “develop[ing] methods to support viral propagation, so that virus can be used for downstream studies.”
Duke University is jointly partnered with China’s Wuhan University, which resulted in the opening of the China-based Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in 2018. Notably, China’s Wuhan University includes a multi-lab Institute of Medical Virology that has worked closely with the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases since the 1980s. Probably thats what gave Dean Koontz his idea for a novel centered around the Wuhan-400 virus.
2018-May 11-The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense disbanded by Trump
2018 DARPA spent $10 million on one project “to unravel the complex causes of bat-borne viruses that have recently made the jump to humans.
2018 September, Trump issues National Security Presidential Memorandum 14 (NSPM 14) was specifically geared toward supporting national biodefense and was issued in conjunction with the National Biodefense Strategy
NSPM 14 established a committee chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that was tasked with implementing the National Biodefense Strategy
NSPM 14 established the National Security Advisor as the lead for policy coordination and review to provide strategic input and facilitate policy integration for Federal biodefense efforts
2018 November 2, FDA and DoD announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to provide the framework under which FDA and DoD will implement the law.
2018-with 21 Trillion in spending unaccounted for an announcement by a little-known government body called the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board — FASAB — that essentially legalized secret national security spending.
The new guidance, “SFFAS 56 – CLASSIFIED ACTIVITIES” permits government agencies to “modify” public financial statements and move expenditures from one line item to another. It also expressly allows federal agencies to refrain from telling taxpayers if and when public financial statements have been altered.
To Michigan State professor Mark Skidmore, who’s been studying discrepancies in defense expenditures for years, the new ruling — and the lack of public response to it — was a shock.
“From this point forward,” he says, “the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden.”
2018 Clade X simulation hosted by John Hopkins . In the simulation a bipartisan group of current and former government officials participated and reacted to a disease outbreak where millions died globally, the stock market crashed and health care system collapsed
2018-January 2018 , Thailand, policy- and decision-makers, experts, researchers, donors and private sector representatives from across the globe came together to introduce and explore the dynamics of the Global Virome Project. The project is an innovative 10-year proposed partnership to develop a global atlas of most of the planet’s naturally occurring potentially zoonotic viruses. The project aims to transform the study of emerging diseases by building an unprecedented global atlas of viruses in their ecological contexts. This foundation of information on viral sequences, geographic ranges and host distributions can drive the development of prevention efforts against future threats. This international alliance will connect the next generation of scientists, build capacity at hotspots of viral emergence and promote equitable access to data and strategies to prevent epidemics.
The Global Virome Project will cost US $ 1.2 billion. Much like the Global Fund, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and other international public health initiatives, the Global Virome Project will likely rely on a broad mix of funding streams from governments, development agencies, research agencies, private foundations and industries.
2018-Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and “batified” mice.
The EHA / WIV proposal (named ‘DEFUSE’) was ultimately rejected for full funding (but leaving open the door for partial funding), in part because it mis-interpreted the GOF guidelines.
In other words, a branch of the federal government had already judged aspects of EHA’s research, and the corresponding shared research plan with the WIV, as falling under the definition of GOF, only for HHS to approve similar work without P3CO review in 2018 and 2019.
This makes perfect sense because HHS and DoD are partners. Since GOF can have dual use applications, HHS is the preferred source of the funding to skirt accusations that it is pursuing biological weapons which would be the case if DARPA funded it.
Also, lets not forget FASAB — they just made it easier to hide secret national security spending. This could have been funded under a Dark Budget
2019- a number of states trying to pass laws eliminating all vaccine exemptions and mandate every vaccine the pharmaceutical industry produces and the CDC recommends.
This follows highly publicized cases of measles that were reported in California’s Disneyland in 2015 and in New York in 2019. During the past five years, California, Vermont, New York, Maine and Hawaii have lost vaccine exemptions, even though tens of thousands of Americans rose up in protest.
In 2019, the people managed to hold on to exemptions in states like Oregon, Arizona and New Jersey but going into 2020, bills to force vaccine use are already threatening parental, civil and human rights in Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania and more.
Social media and Amazon began censoring information from those calling for increased vaccine safety and promoting informed consent
2019, May 30- FBI stated Conspiracy Theories were motivating Domestic Terrorism Threats and linked conspiracy theorists to mental illnesses
2019 June 24, Congress passed and the President signed the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAIA), Public Law No. 116-22.
The 2019 law amends the Public Health Service Act to enhance the authorities of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (Kadlec), and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Redfield) to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
PAHPAIA authorizes new public health and medical preparedness programs for regional health care preparedness and military and civilian partnerships; reauthorizes funding and enhances authorities for the Hospital Preparedness Program, the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement program and other public health and medical preparedness programs.
PAHPAIA also authorizes uses for the Public Health Emergency Fund when the Secretary declares a public health emergency or determines that there is a significant potential for a public health emergency and authorizes advance funding for buying medical countermeasures under the Project BioShield Act and to funding to support advanced research and development of potential medical countermeasures.
PAHPAIA also amends the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act to enhance the authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to support rapid responses to public health emergencies.
2019-July, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense hosted a panel calling for "A Manhattan Project for Biodefense": a "public-private [R&D] undertaking to defend the Nation against biological threats, incl. biological warfare, bioterrorism and infectious disease pandemics."
Co-chaired by Joe Lieberman and ex-DHS sec'y Tom Ridge, the Commission includes anthrax attack target Tom Daschle, ex-FDA comm'r Margaret Hamburg, ex-HHS sec'y Donna Shalala, Biotechnology Industry Organization head Jim Greenwood, Rep. Susan Brooks and Mueller's COS Ken Wainstein
Ex Officios are even more interesting: Cheney COS "Germ Boy" Scooter Libby, EcoHealth's William Karesh, ex-Ft Detrick Cdr. Gerald Parker, Terrorism Studies guru Yonah Alexander, bioindustry doctor George Poste, WH scientist Rachel Levinson, Hudson Institute's Tevi Troy
The focus of the "Manhattan Project" panel was flu vaccines. Spooky ASPR Robert Kadlec, formerly of anthrax vaccine manufacturer BioPort, stresses the need for newer, faster vaccine development, particularly using mRNA technology.
Near the end of Robert Kadlec's session (~3:49), Ken Wainstein commends Kadlec's earlier analogy to Hieronymous Bosch and says, "You were Doctor Death back in the day, and that reminds me why."
Much like the Project for A New Anerican Century in 2000 lamented that to get support for Rebuilding Americas Defense it would take another Pearl Harbor the Manhattan Project has a similar tone
The Co-Founder of Facebook -billionaires Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy Foundation is the biggest Funder of the The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense/Manhattan Project for Biodefense
His foundation also gave a large donation to the John Hopkins Center for Health Security which ran Event 201 and is a regular attendee of the Burning Man Festival.
He gave $17.5 million in the form of a non-dilutive grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to CRISPR company Sherlock Biosciences , who launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with $35 million in funding.
The Open Philanthropy Project also made a separate investment in Sherlock, along with other undisclosed investors..
One of Sherlock Biosciences’ key technologies comes from the Broad Institute lab of Feng Zhang, who did some of the early work elucidating the DNA-modifying potential of CRISPR and its associated enzymes after their discovery in bacteria.
The founders, a long list of scientists including Zhang, James Collins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology synthetic biologist, and David Walt, scientific founder of genome-sequencing giant Illumina, came together because we recognized a problem that has to be solved in the diagnostics space,” says Dhanda, namely that getting test results can take too long and testing may not be accessible in low-resource settings like the developing world.
The vision: “We can make a difference if we can develop technology and platforms that deliver on the performance of molecular diagnostics necessary to make clinical changes, but also bring cost effectiveness and simplicity to the table.”
The founding team at Sherlock WOULD recognize an opportunity to use CRISPR to innovate in the field of diagnostic testing with COVID
Sherlock Biosciences with its Sherlock CRISPR diagnostic kit is the first company that received the approval for CRISPR- based COVID-19 diagnostic test.
The were quick to publish in May 2020. Could they have had a head start?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273289/
2019, July 9 Two Senior residents at an ALF in Fairfax County Virginia die and 18 others suffer from symptoms ranging from coughing to pneumonia
2019, July 9, CDC withdraws only American epidemiologist embedded with Beijings CDC
2019, July 18, CDC shuts down Fort Detrick Lab over safety issues
2019, Sep 11 (EST-China 12 hrs ahead) Chinas virus database suddenly taken off line by Wuhan Bat Lady Shi Zheng Li. Still down in 2021 Shi claims its due to cybersecurity concerns. Some claim the SARS-CoV-2 virus began circulating on or about this time
2019- September, WHO’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) issues its first report on global preparedness for health emergencies.
The GPMB was convened in 2018 by the WHO as a way to help course correct and encourage preventative action, instead of reactionary efforts. The body is independent from the WHO and will produce annual reports that both amplify many of the past recommendations of the WHO and analyze how the WHO can better address the next pandemic.
Ultimately, it aims to reduce the health and economic impact of health crises by building stronger and more resilient health care systems.
In its 2019 report, the GPMB warned that "there is a very real threat of a rapidly moving, highly lethal pandemic of a respiratory pathogen killing 50 to 80 million people and wiping out nearly 5% of the world’s economy."
One of the required actions scheduled before September 2020 , under authority of the legally binding International health regulations (IHR 2005) , called for 2 systemwide training and simulation exercises, one of which covered release of a lethal respiratory pathogen.
Members on the GPM board include the head of NIAID Tony Fauci and George Gao of Chinas CDC Director
2019-September, The Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) finds that in a pandemic year, depending on the transmission efficiency and virulence of the particular pandemic virus, the economic damage would range from $413 billion to $3.79 trillion. Fatalities in the most serious scenario would exceed half a million people in the United States
2019-2020 National Vaccine Plan approved. They combined the 2010 NVP goals and the NAIP goals into a set of 5 new goals.
For example, the subcommittee recognized a need to foster innovation in both vaccine development and related technologies that support vaccination across the lifespan.
The subcommittee incorporated this need for innovation into Goal 1 . Similarly, for Goal 4, the group combined NVP and NAIP goals to “optimize access to and utilization of all routinely recommended vaccines across the lifespan.” For Goal 3, the subcommittee recognized the need to address misinformation and “enhance knowledge of and confidence in routine vaccines and the immunization system.”
After refining the goals, the subcommittee then identified the top 3 priorities for each updated goal along with rationales for inclusion of the 5 recommended goals
This work and this report were presented and approved at the September 17, 2019, NVAC meeting.
2019, Sep 29, Trump signs Executive Order on Modernizing Influenza Vaccines and creating a Flu Vaccine Task Force to promote National Security
EO 13887 establish a National Influenza Task Force that reported to the President and called for the Department of Defense to collaborate with the HHS to design and evaluate influenza vaccines
2019, October 1. Strategic National Stockpile handed over to BARDA from CDC. BARDA is protected from FOIA requests
2019 October 18: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security convene an invitation-only “tabletop exercise” called Event 201to map out the response to a hypothetical global coronavirus pandemic.Attended by IS CDC and George Gao of China CDC
October 2019- draft of Crimson Contagion 2019 exercise conducted from January-August in 2019- Functional Exercise scenario was based on a novel influenza A(H7N9) virus that originates in China and is antigenically distinct (not matched ) from stockpiled vaccines.
2019-October 29 Vaccine conference at Milliken Institute where Public Health gurus like Fauci discussed how to streamline vaccine development
https://www.c-span.org/video/?465845-1/universal-flu-vaccine
Some interesting quotes
Michael Specter: Why don’t we blow the system up? I mean obviously, we can’t just turn off the spigot on the system. We have and then say, hey everyone in the world should get this new vaccine that we haven’t given to anyone yet. But there must be some way that we grow vaccines mostly in eggs the way we did in 1947.
Fauci: In order to make the transition from getting out of the tried-and-true egg growing which we know gives us results that can be beneficial, I mean we’ve done well with that. There must be something that has to be much better. You have to prove that this works and then you’ve got to go through all of the clinical trials: phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, and then show that this particular product is going to be good over a period of years. That alone, if it works perfectly, it’s going to take a decade.
Rick Bright (BARDA): There might be a need or even an urgent call for an entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive, that’s not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.
Fauci: So we really do have a problem of how the world perceives influenza and it’s going to be very difficult to change that unless you do it from within and save.. I don’t care what your perception is, we’re going to address the problem in a disruptive and in an iterative way because she does need both.
Bright: But it is not too crazy to think that an outbreak of novel avian virus could occur in China somewhere. We could get the RNA sequence from that.. to a number of regional centers if not local, if not even in your home at some point, and print those vaccines on a patch of self-administer.
Joining Fauci, Rick Bright, and Michael Specter at this event were: Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine, Bruce Gellin, President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Casey Wright, CEO, FluLab.
In short, this panel discussion suggested they needed some kind of global event where many people were dying to be able to roll out a new mRNA vaccine to be tested on the public. Not unlike the Project for the New American Century a year before 9/11 lamenting it would take a New Pearl Harbor to get the support they needed to Rebuild Americas Defenses
2019 December, WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit. Scientists Question Safety of Vaccines
2019, December-weeks before the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began PREDICT-2, the lUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats announced the decision to stop funding the programme . Good timing
The programme supported a decade of virology, ecology, and epidemiology around the world. Since 2009, PREDICT worked with more than 60 countries to build capacity and strengthen zoonotic pathogen surveillance, and identified at least 931 novel virus species from 145 000 samples of wildlife, livestock, and humans.1
The end of PREDICT leaves the closely connected Global Virome Project and a much broader coalition of multidisciplinary research in the lurch.
Despite a lack of immediate causation, the coincidental timing with the emergence of COVID-19 has not gone unnoticed
2019 December 16th, A material transfer agreement for Moderna mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates was signed by Ralph Baric, PhD, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then signed by Jacqueline Quay, Director of Licensing and Innovation Support at the University of North Carolina
The agreement was also signed by two representatives of the NIAID, one of whom was Amy F. Petrik PhD, a technology transfer specialist who signed the agreement on December 12th 2019 at 8:05 am.
The final signatories on the agreement were Sunny Himansu, Moderna’s Investigator, and Shaun Ryan, Moderna’s Deputy General Councel. Both signautres were made on December 17th 2019.
2019 December 18: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report the development of a “novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history,” using smartphone-readable nanocrystals called “quantum dots” embedded in the skin using microneedles—this work is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of the coauthors of the report is Robert Langer who is also cofounder of Moderna
2020 January 4, , Callahan called Dr. Robert Malone from China just as the coronavirus began taking its first wave of casualties. Malone, a former contractor to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the chief medical officer at Alchem Laboratories, is the inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology platform.
Malone first met Callahan in 2009 through Malone’s sometime business partner, Daryl Galloway, a CIA officer who formerly served in the US Navy and at one point held the post of director of JSTO in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. To Malone, Galloway introduced Callahan as a fellow CIA officer.
During his January 4 phone call, Callahan told Malone that he was just outside Wuhan. Malone assumed that Callahan was visiting China under cover of his Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital appointments. Callahan told Malone that he had been treating “hundreds” of COVID-19 patients.
Callahan subsequently described to National Geographic how he had pored through thousands of case studies at the outbreak’s epicenter. He giddily reported his amazement at the virus’s “magnificent infectivity,” and its capacity to explode “like a silent smart bomb in your community.”
On leaving China, Callahan returned to Washington to brief federal officials and then went directly to work as a “special adviser” to Robert Kadlec, managing the government’s response to the coronavirus.
2020- January 5 . NCMI issues Infectious Disease Risk Assessment for COVID-19 , reporting that 59 people had been taken ill in Wuhan, China. This report was derived not from any sensitive intelligence collection effort or independent biosurveillance activity, but rather from a report issued to the WHO by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, dated January 5, 2020).
The NCMI had been relegated to a mere observer, having failed in its mission to provide timely, predictive analysis of pending epidemiological threats. Almost everything the NCMI knew about the current situation in Wuhan came from the WHO, which had been working very closely with Chinese authorities from the Chinese Center of Disease Control (CCDC) to determine the origin and nature of the coronavirus outbreak.
The NCMI has access to the resources of the totality of the intelligence community, including intercepted communications, satellite imagery, and sensitive human intelligence, including covert sample collection.
Too bad they didn’t talk to Darpas man in Wuhan (Michael Callahan) who reported there were hundreds of cases a day (far more than 59) earlier.
2020, Jan 13. French Health Minister bans HCQ as OTC medicine after 60 years. In March they prohibited prescriptions for COVID patients unless in serious/terminal condition (where it doesn’t work)
2020- As news of a novel coronavirus outbreak in China is breaking President Trump arrives in Switzerland to attend the 2020 DavosWorld Economic Forum. Only the 2nd US President to pay homage, the other being Bill Clinton, he is the first to attend twice
2020, Jan. - National Security Council classifies Coronavirus Response Meetings with HHS which are held at the Sensitive Compartmentalized information Facility (SCIF) limiting which experts which could participate. NSC was reported to be managing the governments response in close coordination with the intelligence community
2020, Jan 21 Fauci says COVID is not a major threat to the people of the US.
2020 January 24, Netflix releases Pandemic docuseries, an eerily timed documentary about pandemics, and obviously production began well before the Wuhan pandemic. As theaters and Cinemas plan to close , and sports entertainment is ended, Netflix should experience a boon in business as people hide in their caves and turn to streaming on Smart TV’s.
2020, Jan 29. Trump announced it established a Coronavirus Task Force. Fauci appointed to head it
2020, Jan 31. Travel ban on China origin flights
2020, Jan 31-Feb 3
Farzan, an immunologist who in 2005 discoveredthe receptor of the original severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, sent his post-teleconference notes to Farrar, who then shared them with Collins, Fauci, and Lawrence Tabak—top officials at the NIH. In those notes, Farzan wrote that he was “bothered by the furin site” and had difficulty explaining it “as an event outside the lab.”
Farzan noted that it was theoretically possible the virus’s furin cleavage site could have arisen in nature but that it was “highly unlikely.”
The furin cleavage site is the defining feature that gives COVID-19 the ability to easily infect humans and has long been puzzled over by scientists, since no such site has ever been observed in naturally occurring SARS-related coronaviruses.
Farzan, like scientist Kristian Andersen, who has received funding from Fauci’s NIAID, works at the Scripps laboratory. As was already known from previously released emails, Andersen had privately told Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020 that the virus looked engineered. Andersen would later spearheadFauci’s efforts to promote a natural origin narrative
Further revelations in the newly unredacted emails came from Garry, another scientist funded by Fauci’s NIAID, who told the senior members of the teleconference group in no uncertain terms that “I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus” to COVID-19.
Garry cited the remarkable sequences that would have to occur naturally, telling the group that “I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. Do the alignment of the spikes at the amino acid level – it’s stunning.” He noted that a lab-created virus would readily explain the data he was seeing, telling Fauci’s group that “Of course, in the lab, it would be easy to generate the perfect 12 base insert that you wanted.
Garry’s privately stated view is even more remarkable because only a day earlier, on Feb. 1, 2020, Garry had helped to complete the first draft of the Proximal Origin paper that promoted the idea that the virus had originated in nature.
That paper became the media’s and the public health establishment’s go-to evidence for a natural origin for the COVID virus.
It was published online on Feb. 16, 2020, and firmly excluded the possibility of a lab leak.
2020 February 3, -President Trump’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Kelvin K. Droegemeier, wrote to the National Academy of Sciences President, Dr. Marcia McNutt, on February 3, 2020, to probe the origin of the 2019 coronavirus. Dir. Droegemeier requested the National Academy of Science (NAS) scientists provide a “Rapid Response Assessment . . . that would help determine the origins of 2019 2019-nCoV, specifically from an evolutionary/structural biology standpoint.
2020, Feb 4, HHS issues Notice of Declaration under PREP ACT for medical countermeasures against COVID-19 and provide liability immunity for all involved
2020-February 6 NAS responds to White House after consulting with experts. They were Kristian G. Andersen (Scripps Research Institute), Ralph Baric (UNC School of Public Health), Trevor Bedford (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute), Aravinda Chakravarti (New York University School of Medicine), Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance), Gigi K. Gronvall (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Tom Inglesby (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security), and Stanley Perlman (University of Iowa).
By citing a scientific article from the Wuhan Institute of Virology stating the disease outbreak “started from a local seafood market,” the National Academy of Science’s letter to OSTP unequivocally supported the contention made by China’s Communist Party government that the COVID-19 pandemic was a naturally-occurring transmission from animals to humans.
Most of the scientists consulted for the National Academy of Science response had long histories of collaboration with China and/or were later associated with a robust support of China and the theory that COVID-19 originated as a naturally-occurring event.
In some important respects, the final National Academy of Sciences response dated February 6, 2020, bears little resemblance to the original draft, dated February 4, 2020.
According to the email exchanges between the National Academy of Science and the consultant scientists, there appeared to be a clear effort by the scientists to support the naturally-occurring theory and to eliminate or downplay any mention that the COVID-19 virus was engineered, had unique human binding characteristics, might mutate towards higher infectivity and possessed a furin polybasic cleavage site not found in any related coronavirus.
2020-Feb 14, Pandemic Prevention Platform - or P3 set up 2 years ago and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Agency - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced plans to respond rapidly to COVID-19 until a vaccine is developed.
The first part of the plan is to identify antibodies and get antibodies from people who've been infected with COVID-19 and recovered.
The second part is to develop a drug that can be used based on these antibodies. They plan to try and just take the genetic material that codes for these antibodies and put that into people and alter their DNA so as to let the people's own cells make the antibody. It's only been tested in tens of patients, so its experimental.
They may have something ready in as soon as 90 days.
2020- March, Profusa won DARPA funding to determine if their injectable biosensors can predict future pandemics, including the now widely predicted“second wave” of Covid-19, and detect those infected up to three weeks before they would otherwise show symptoms.
The company expects to have its biosensors FDA licensed for this purpose by early next year, about the same time a coronavirus vaccine is expected to be available to the general public.
2020, Feb 29, Fauci says no need to change anything you are doing on a day to day basis
2020, Feb 29 The first patient death in the United States from COVID-19is reported by Washington state health officials
2020, March 5 President Trump signs COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Actinto law.
Included is an $8.3 billionemergency coronavirus spending package, much of which “directly benefit[s] the drug industry.”
2020, March 8, Fauci says evidence is that wearing masks won’t be helpful
2020, March 11, WHO declares Pandemic
2020, March 11 , President Trump addresses the nation on prime-time television concerning the COVID-19 pandemicas the total number of confirmed cases passes a thousand. During the address, Trump announces that he will suspend all travel to and from Europe for thirty days, starting midnight Friday. The United Kingdom is exempt from this restriction.
2020, March 13, TRUMP declared National Emergency
The declaration opens access to $50 billion in emergency funding, lifts restrictions on doctors and hospitals, and waives student loan interest
2020, March 16, WHO stated SARS-Cov-2 does not appear to spread as quickly as Influenza
2020, March 16, In a press conference at the White House, President Trump urges Americans to avoid gatherings of more than ten people, warning that the COVID-19 pandemiccould last into the summer.
2020, March 16, Fauci tells Americans to Hunker Down significantly to slow the spread
2020, March 17, CDC contracts with Palantir to model outbreak data
2020, March 17, DHS contracted with MITRE to work on a pandemic response plan to engage, inform and guide Mayors, Governors and emergency response leaders dealing with a pandemic. MITRE would advise on non pharmaceutical interventions (eg closing schools, stores, masks, social distancing)
2020-March 17, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) enlisted Palantir (Peter Theils company, one of Trumps largest supporters) , a data scraping and modeling behemoth that works with law enforcement and other government security agencies, to model outbreak data.
Palantir and Clearview AI, the facial recognition startup that acquired billions of facial images through public web scraping, have been in contact with state governments about tracking people who came in contact with infected individuals.
2020-March 18, President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a bill providing sick leave, unemployment benefits, free COVID-19 testing, and food and medical aid to people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, into law.
President Trump and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau close the border between the United States and Canada, allowing only essential traffic through
2020-March 21, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND downgraded COVID from a High Consequence Disease to an Inconsequential Disease due to low mortality rates
2020 March 21 - Trumps DOJ requests new “emergency powers” in light of the coronavirus crisis, as it specifically asks that those new powers apply to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings.”
The inclusion of the term “pre-arrest” likely means that “you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. “
2020-March 22, GILEAD Science granted Orphan Drug Status for Remdesivir allowing them to monopolize pricing despite receiving over 70 million in Federal Funding for drug development
2020-March 24, CDC revised death certificate reporting guidelines that had been in effect since 2003 . The effect was to have anyone with a positive COVID-19 test counted as a COVID death even if they died from other reasons.
As Deborah Birx said those dying from and those dying with COVID would both be counted. On April 14 CDC expanded that to include those presumed to have COVID (w/o a positive test). Financial incentives would be given to those who diagnosed more COVID cases/deaths under the CARE ACT.
2020, March 25, The number of deaths in the United States from COVID-19 disease is 826. Two hundred eighty-six are in New York state, one hundred twenty-six in Washington state, fifty-eight in California, forty-six in Louisiana and thirty-eight in Georgia.
2020, March 26, Fauci published paper in NEJM stating COVID may be more like a severe seasonal influenza with a IFR of 0.1%
2020 March 26, -Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the face of the White House coronavirus response team, is now saying life probably will not go back to normal until we have the ability to vaccinate the entire global population against COVID-19.
2020, March 27, Trump signs the 2 trillion dollar CARE Act
$ 75 billion would be given hospitals and other healthcare providers
2020, March 29, Trump extends the nationwide social distancing
guidelines until April 30
President Trump reveals that his decision to extend the social distancing guidelines to April 30 was motivated by models which predicted that if the restrictions were removed as many as 2.2 million people would die and about half the country would be infected.
President Trump also warned that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could become infected in the coming days, despite strict isolation and distancing guidelines.
2020, March 30 FDA authorizes use of HCQ
2020, March 31, Fauci and Birx predict 100-240K deaths even with social distancing and lockdowns
April -President Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a planned pharmaceutical-government-military collaboration to shrink the development timefor a coronavirus vaccine.
Operation Warp Speed established a partnership between DoD and HHS to support the development, manufacture, and distribution of vaccines.
Remember why the DoD and HHS are so important:
The Secretary of HHS is the chair of the Biodefense Steering committee tasked with implementing the National Biodefense Strategy that was established by NSPM 14
The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of HHS co-chaired the National Influenza Vaccine Task Force.
EO 13887 allowed the Secretary of Defense to implement vaccine development within the DoD
Within the framework of OWS, the DoD and HHS are assisting Big Pharma in fast-tracking their vaccine development, manufacturing, and distribution
2020, April, Secret data platform Launched by HHS called HHS Protect built largely from software obtained from Palantir. The predictive aspect of HHS Protect is a component called HHS Vision that began in July.
Chief Information Officer Arrieta is a staunch advocate of AI, blockchain and other emergency technologies and wants to use HHS as a test bed in collaboration with the Pentagon
HHS awarded two contracts, worth a total of nearly $25 million, to Palantir Technologies, Inc., ("Palantir") for a massive COVID-19 data platform. The platform, "pulls datafrom across the federal government, state and local governments, healthcare facilities, and colleges, to help administration officials determine how to 'mitigate and prevent spread' of the coronavirus."
HHS Protect reportedly houses 187 different datasets, including COVID-19 case counts, hospital capacity, and supply chain, census, testing, and emergency department data.
HHS reportedly plans to gather the public's sensitive health information, as part of HHS Protect.
"The inclusion of [Protected Health Information] (PHI) in this database raises serious privacy concerns," the lawmakers wrote. "Neither HHS nor Palantir has publicly detailed what it plans to do with this PHI, or what privacy safeguards have been put in place, if any. We are concerned that, without any safeguards, data in HHS Protect could be used by other federal agencies in unexpected, unregulated, and potentially harmful ways, such as in the law and immigration enforcement context
April 2 2020-The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcedon April 2, 2020 that it will not impose penalties for violations of certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule against health care providers and their business associates for good faith uses and disclosures of patient information intended to assist the government in its efforts to combat COVID-19.
HHS has already released other pronouncements during this pandemic regarding telehealth remote communications, HIPAA requirements related to telemedicineand expanding benefits for Medicare beneficiaries.
2020 April 6: Dr. Fauci describes a COVID-19 vaccine as a “showstopper” and states, “I hope we don’t have so many people infected that we actually have . . . herd immunity.”
2020 April 15, President Trump announces that the US will stop funding the World Health Organization (WHO), after Trump criticized the WHO for being too lenient on China.
2020, April 16, President Trump announces that the states can begin lifting restrictions for COVID-19 by May 1 while acknowledging that the decision to reopen is best left to the states.
April 16: Moderna announces up to $483 millionin funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to speed up the mRNA-1273 vaccine’s development.
April 18: Professor Luc Montagnier, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of HIV, appears on French television and states that SARS-CoV-2 has been “manipulated” to include “added sequences” from HIV.
Professor Montagnier asserts that this “meticulous” insertion could only have been carried out in a laboratory. Othersraise similar questions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
April 18: News outlets report that the country’s first coronavirus tests are ineffective due to CDC lab contaminationand the CDC’s violation of its manufacturing standards.
2020, April 22, Rockefeller Foundation proposed National COVID -19 Testing Action Plan calling for 30 million tests per week and a COVID community Health Corps with staff of 100-300,000 people
2020 April 24 -President Trump signs the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Actto provide hospitals with $484 billion in funding with $100 billion going to Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund , much of that going to hospitals to offset losses and increase COVID-19 testing.
2020, May 1, Remdesivir wins EUA based on NIH trial data showing faster recovery but no improvement in mortality. WHO later conducted its own study and found no benefit
2020, May 1, President Trump dismisses Acting Health and Human Servicesinspector general Christi Grimm, who had issued an April report describing severe shortages of COVID-19 testing materials and personal protective equipment.
[Gee all those Pandemic Exercises and Planning and we had shortages of critical pandemic supplies. In a real world the CEO gets fired]
May 1, 2020-Recognizing the particular impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on hospitals in certain parts of the nation, and that inpatient admissions are a primary driver of costs to hospitals related to COVID-19, HHS is distributing $12 billion to 395 hospitals who provided inpatient care for 100 or more COVID-19 patients through April 10, 2020, $2 billion of which will be distributed to these hospitals based on their Medicare and Medicaid disproportionate share and uncompensated care payments.
These 395 hospitals accounted for 71 percent of COVID-19 inpatient admissions reported to HHS from nearly 6,000 hospitals around the country.
Rural hospitals, many of whom were operating on thin margins prior to COVID-19, have also been particularly devastated by this pandemic. As healthy patients delay care and cancel elective services, rural hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open.
Recipients of the $10 billion rural distribution will include, rural acute care general hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and Community Health Centers located in rural areas.
Hospitals and RHCs will each receive a minimum base payment plus a percent of their annual expenses. This expense-based method accounts for operating cost and lost revenue incurred by rural hospitals for both inpatient and outpatient services. The base payment will account for RHCs with no reported Medicare claims, such as pediatric RHCs, and CHCs lacking expense data, by ensuring that all clinical, non-hospital sites receive a minimum level of support no less than $100,000, with additional payment based on operating expenses.
Rural acute care general hospitals and CAHs will receive a minimum level of support of no less than $1,000,000, with additional payment based on operating expenses.
2020 May, Kadlec arranged a $1.6 billion grant—the largest to date—from Operation Warp Speed to Gates’s biotech selection, Novavax. Although the company, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, had never brought a vaccine to market in its thirty-three-year history, and was then on the verge of collapse, Gates and his obedient minions at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) had placed a bet on Novavax’s technology, which uses moth cells to pump out crucial molecules at a faster rate than typical vaccines. Kadlec’s generosity with his Warp Speed wampum caused Novavax’s stock to surge 30 percent.
2020, May 11, UK chief Medical Officer Chris Witty states COVID is harmless to the vast majority
2020, May 15 Britain’s Office of National Statistics reports 40% of COVID deaths in retirement facilities
May 15-Trump hired Dr. Slaoui to head Operation Warp Speed. Slaoui has worked in the pharmaceutical industry on vaccine development for decades. Several companies he has worked with or sits on the Board of Directors are funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One of these companies, Moderna Therapeutics, is conducting research on RNA vaccines in partnership with the U.S. government’s organization, DARPA.
In 2016, Slaoui was appointed to the Board of Directors of Moderna Therapeutics, the apparent front runner for the Covid vaccine although multiple vaccines are likely to be approved to handle 8 billion shots or more annually. Dr Slaoui holds 10 million in Moderna at time of appointment
2020, May 21, Forbes reported that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has given $1 billion to Astra Zeneca in partnership with Oxfordfor a rushed rollout of the vaccine in September. Thats a UK company
2020, May 18 President Trump reveals that he is taking Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug untested for its effectiveness against COVID-19
2020, May, claim is made that Iran attempted to hack Gilead, presumably looking for information on Remdesivir
[Remdesivir might be their best WMD if they could make it]
2020 May 22, -Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing it has begun distributing billions in additional relief funds to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to help them combat the devastating effects of this pandemic.
Nursing homes play a pivotal role in providing skilled care to our nation’s vulnerable seniors. During this pandemic, nursing homes have faced unique challenges as their population of high risk seniors are more vulnerable to respiratory pathogens like COVID-19. This funding, which supplements previously announced provider relief funds, will be used to support nursing homes suffering from significant expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19.
“This funding secured by President Trump will help nursing homes keep the seniors they care for safe during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “The Trump Administration is providing every resource we can, from funding and direct PPE shipments to regulatory flexibility and infection control consultations, to protect seniors in nursing homes and those who care for them.”
President Trump is providing support to healthcare providers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic through the bipartisan CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act that provide $175 billion in relief funds to hospitals and other healthcare providers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. In allocating these funds, the Administration is working, among other things, to address the economic impact of COVID-19 on providers and doing so as quickly and transparently as possible.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the viability of SNFs in a variety of ways.
Since the beginning of 2020, SNFs have experienced up to a 6 percent decline in their patient population (120,000) as current and potential residents choose other care settings, or as current residents pass away.
In addition to nursing home residents, many SNF employees have also been diagnosed with COVID-19. These additional funds may help nursing homes address critical needs such as labor, scaling up their testing capacity, acquiring personal protective equipment and a range of other expenses directly linked to this pandemic.
HHS will make relief fund distributions to SNFs based on both a fixed basis and variable basis. Each SNF will receive a fixed distribution of $50,000, plus a distribution of $2,500 per bed. All certified SNFs with six or more certified beds are eligible for this targeted distribution.
2020 May 22,- For the first time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given a realistic estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, which in its most likely scenario is 0.26 %
2020 , May 27, -An incredible 43 percent of coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities (ALF), reportsForbes.
The 2.1 million Americans who live in nursing homes and ALFs represent just 0.62 percent of the population, but a staggering 43 percent of America’s coronavirus deaths.
June 1 , 2020-As part of the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed, on Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a task order with Emergent BioSolutions to advance manufacturing capabilities and capacity for a potential COVID-19 vaccine as well as therapeutics.
The task order is worth approximately $628 million and falls under an existing contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
Under the task order, Emergent will commit contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) drug substance and drug product manufacturing capacity valued at approximately $542.75 million for production of COVID-19 vaccine candidates through 2021, in addition to an investment of approximately $85.5 million for the rapid expansion of Emergent’s viral and non-viral CDMO fill / finish capacity for vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing.
Before this task order announcement, Emergent had begun collaborating on development and manufacturing with Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, and Vaxart on their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Johnson & Johnson’s candidate has received BARDA support.
BARDA has invested since 2012 to expand domestic manufacturing capabilities in the United States, including creating three Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing; one of the centers is managed by Emergent and becomes the first to be deployed for the Operation Warp Speed effort.
2020, June 4 Lancet retracts 2 bogus studies on HCQ
2020, June , Trumps administration gives the Gates founded GAVI a donation of 1.16 billion dollars. GAVI is one of WHO’s biggest funders (along with the US and Gates), so some of that money will end up in WHO’s hands
2020, June CDC gives MITRE 16.3 million dollar contract to help build an enduring capability to contain COVID
2020, June FDA retracts HCQ EUA at request of BARDA despite studies showing a clear benefit when used with zinc in patients with early mild disease
Like BARDA’s earlier request to FDA to issue the EUA, BARDA’s request to revoke the EUA is part of a collaborative, USG- interagency effort to rapidly respond to this continuously evolving public health emergency.
Today’s request to revoke is based on new information, including clinical trial data results, that have led BARDA to conclude that this drug may not be effective to treat COVID-19 [Coronavirus Disease 2019] and that the drug’s potential benefits for such use do not outweigh its known and potential risks.
The authorization of a product for emergency use under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3) may, pursuant to section 564(g)(2) of the Act, be revised or revoked when the criteria under section 564(b)(1) of the Act no longer exist, the criteria under section 564(c) of the Act for issuance of such authorization are no longer met, or other circumstances make such revision or revocation appropriate to protect the public health or safety.
FDA has determined that the criteria under section 564(c) of the Act for issuance of the EUA referenced above are no longer met.
[This was based in part on the 2 Lancet studies that were retracted]
2020, June 20, NIH halts study on HCQ showing no harm but no benefit. They did not use zinc and also did not evaluate benefits of using it on non hospitalized patients
Where it would be most useful since by the time a patient requires hospitalization damage to the lungs has already occurred
2020, June 27, US Ambassador to UN announces another gift to GAVI of 545 million dollars
2020, June 29 Gilead sets price for Remdesivir at 3200 dollars
2020, July 7 Trump announces intentions to leave WHO (1 yr notice required)
2020, July 9 WHO announced COVID-19 can be airborne (in which case masks would be useless)
2020, July 13 The Trump administration orders hospitals to forego sending all COVID-19 patient information to the CDC and instead submit it to a central database maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services.[all COVID Data to be sent to HHS Protect instead of CDC national Healthcare Safety Network]
2020, Sep 3, Studies report steroids are most effective treatment for serious COVID but early COVID TREATMENT protocols did not include steroids despite being commonly used for many other lung infections
2020, Sep 21, CDC goes against WHO and pulls guidance saying COVID transmission can be airborne
2020, Sep 25, President Trump is diagnosed with COVID-19, but keeps this a secret from the public of this diagnosis becomes public in November 2021).
2020, October 2. President Trump tweets that both he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 and would immediately quarantine.Later that day, President Trump boarded a helicopter to Bethesda Naval Hospitalfor treatment.
He then treats his alleged illness with Remdesivir and Regeneron (so he claims) instead of HCQ or IVM
2020-October, Palantir-developed software tool known as “Tiberius” will guide OWS vaccine distribution efforts. Tiberius will identify high-priority populations at highest risk of infection.” The software will “decide” which “population subgroups” are given what vaccine.
Not only will Tiberius use Palantir’s Gotham software and its artificial intelligence components to “help identify high-priority populations,” it will produce delivery timetables and map out the locationsfor vaccine distribution based on the masses of data it has collected through various contracts with HHSand data-sharing allianceswith In-Q-Tel, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, among others.
These data include extremely sensitive information about American citizens and the lack of privacy safeguards governing Palantir’s growing access to American healthcare data
2020, Oct 22, FDA approved Remdesivir for COVID , thus ignoring the WHO trial showing no benefit
2020, Dec 27, Despite previously calling the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package "a disgrace", President Trump signs the bill, averting a government shutdown.[
2020, Dec 31, 2.8 million first doses given (cumulative)
2021 Jan 12, Alex Azarannounces that HHSwould make changes to their vaccinedistributions in an effort to speed up the rollout by encouraging states to open vaccination sites to all persons older than 65,
2021, Jan 18-President Trump signs an executive order that lifts travel restrictions on Brazil, the United Kingdom, China, and Europeafter January 26. However, Jen Psaki, Biden's Press Secretary, says that the restrictions are expected to remain in place.
2021-the 2019 Manhattan Project for Biodefense" rebranded themselves as "Apollo Program for Biodefense." Their latest report calls for developing vaccines against "prototype pathogens" and multi-pathogen therapeutics.
https://thenextapollo.org/wp-content/uploads/Apollo_report_final_v8_033121_web.pdf
It wont be long before we have mRNA vaccines that will claim protection against many different viruses. What could go wrong?
2021 December 22, Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/