A week after taking office, published by Senator Randpole of Kentucky Congressional summons gust to 14 institutions including NIH and HHS. The senator said ongoing investigations are being conducted because “criticising the process that allowed this dangerous study and could have led to a pandemic.”
In one of the subpoems sent to the Pentagon Agency, Paul said, “Whistleblower disclosure or waste, fraud, and origins of COVID-19, benefits of functional research, double use of concerns, or life sciences. They seek all records related to abuse complaints, according to a copy of the “study”, a subpoena provided to Wired. He is also seeking funds provided to the EcoHealth Alliance from USAID and other departments.
One staff member of the agency that is covered by the subpoena says they are providing tens of thousands of records to senators based on previous subpoena. Still, they say they feel they are still targeted by Paul and other Republicans with claims that they are building biological weapons. “I won’t die.”
Many sources who spoke to Wired said they were afraid that the witch hunt could accelerate in the coming months. Even more sharply, they fear that America is destroying its ability to predict, investigate and respond to outbreaks.
“We’ve seen a lot of people who have had a lot of trouble with their health,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist for vaccine and infectious disease tissue at the University of Saskatchewan.
“They just completely destroy the understanding of science and the world, and their ability to fight pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires and everything else,” one researcher said, “as stupid as a rock.”
This doesn’t seem to bother Kennedy. In at least two books, he characterizes virtually all virological work as a biological weapon study. In November 2023, he gave a speech to the child health defense of a sensual anti-vaccine group who chaired the presidential campaign, Kennedy vowed to “.”Give an infectious disease a break for about 8 years. ”
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Infectious disease research and potential pivots into chronic diseases occur when the US is facing an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. “Our epidemiologists are [looking for] The first case of human-to-human transmission is not even a needle in a haystack. It’s a needle in a pile of needles,” says a former CDC official.
Last Wednesday evening, Erin Abramsohn, the CDC senior adviser in charge of dealing with the H5N1 policy, announced her resignation. in LinkedIn PostAbramzon mentioned efforts to work with the team through “chaos and uncertainty, transition, reorganization, preparation and response” and to back up files before resigning.
Rasmussen and some colleagues are competing to archive a large number of government research, fearing that it could be taken completely offline, as was done in USAID and elsewhere.
Former CDC officials add that the new administration appears to be set to change how vaccines are generally recommended and how the CDC can communicate the effectiveness of the vaccine . Like most U.S. government agencies, the CDC and NIH are also given an order to remove references to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across their websites.
“We had to look into the language from research questions and documents, internal and external websites,” says a former CDC official. “If you can’t get it, pull down the entire web page.”
Sources have told Wired that the language proclamation extends to ongoing research. Scientists are forced to scrutinise surveys and edit papers that have not yet been published to remove respect for gender and transgender people.
“I think we’re really worried,” the former CDC official said, “about how much damage we’re doing, which we can’t reverse.”
