Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19

[pueblo]

Trump and the First Lady both test positive for Covid-19.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?s=20

[Richter]

Donald Trump and Melania test positive for coronavirus (5:19)
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Watch live
- NBC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am5m7jcLxXQ
- ABC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-cC7gBALts

[Richter]

Trump: "Nobody has been tested as positive as me."

[pueblo]

Trump: "Nobody has been tested as positive as me."

Make Covid Great Again! :popcorn:

[Zanshin]

So assuming the footage of Hope Hicks above was before she tested positive -

how did the camera operator know to focus in on her?

[pyrangello]

I read one figure that President Trump has had in the last month a total of 240,000 people have attended his rallies since labor day , President Trump doesn't drink alcohol or smoke . He doesn't even take a paycheck for the job he stepped up to the plate for, he donates his entire salary to charity.i have said before , the more people get this covid the faster this will be over with. We can,t wrap a baby blanket around the entire world population from getting this. This flu just like the others need to run it course probably at least 1 more flu season coming up. The cdc finally released numbeers of fatalities of the regular flu from this past year at 60,000 DEATHS but that's been getting lumped in with the 200k COVID count being paraded around along with all the other listed unrelated covid deaths being listed as covid,I know of 12 DEATHS listed as COVID on the death certificate that had nothing to do with covid.

I would just say prayers are in order for everyone and let's continue to press forward. President Trump is a hard charger, I'm sure he will weather this along with our first lady. Remember President Trump has already taken the hydroxichloriquine . What a crazy year this has been.

[Gracy]

So assuming the footage of Hope Hicks above was before she tested positive -

how did the camera operator know to focus in on her?

That's just from file footage laying around. We see it all the time on the news. When the news came, there was likely a rush to find something of her, the more recent the better.

[Sue (Ayt)]

As apokalypse posted (below) on the October Surprise thread, this does appear to be what is happening already on the news stations.
There are many implications as to where this could go.


@JohnCammo
·
Sep 18
Level 2:
Trump’s October surprise will be the announcement of “his infection.” Fake, but quite dramatic. This twist will blow Biden off the screens, the “Trump COVID watch” dominating every minute of every day. Then, 14 days later, Trump will emerge, 100% cured by hydroxychloroquine.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1306805988826189824

saw around reddit conspiracy forums..few people calling it days ago.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

How low can they go?

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1311904673171820544

[PurpleLama]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1311919466083610624

This is also my supposition.

[fifi]

I hope Trump and the First Lady get cured by hydroxychloroquine, and this will prove to the whole world that HCQ works. I think Brazilian president was also treated with HCQ, but MSM ignores this.

[pueblo]

I saw this circulating today among people who are probably not big Trump fans... :)


"Trump tests positive for Covid - Our thoughts and prayers are with the virus at this difficult time.."

[Hitchy]

Interesting post seen on r/conspiracy today

[Bill Ryan]

I hope Trump and the First Lady get cured by hydroxychloroquine, and this will prove to the whole world that HCQ works.Or — that it's a false positive. That'd get a LOT of people talking.

[thepainterdoug]

FIFI Only if they have symptoms. if no symptoms then no need for a cure, unless of course, then after treatment you no longer test positive

[Karen (Geophyz)]

Mr. Trump has been taken to Walter Reed hospital for “a few days”. I think it may be worse than everyone thought.

[muxfolder]

I'm sure he's not going to die. But I do see another spokesperson for that vaccine Billyboy's trying to offer to us all. And it's straight to the ass-cheek you know. That's our future, like it or not.

[ZenBaller]

Probably a strategic move. The timing was perfect. Not too early for the people to forget that he had the virus. Not too late to miss the elections.

[Karen (Geophyz)]

I think you are giving him far to much credit! I am hoping he gets well quickly.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Mr. Trump has been taken to Walter Reed hospital for “a few days”. I think it may be worse than everyone thought.
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[CurEus]

or...he was poisoned. Who knows what playbook is being used.

[Deborah (ahamkara)]

The move to a military hospital provides treatment options, protection and a chance to meet with anyone away from prying eyes.This is certainly a twist, and an unnerving one at that. I wonder if any members have genuine sources in Walter Reed or the military? Certainly plans are being laid......

[Olam]

Mr. Trump has been taken to Walter Reed hospital for “a few days”. I think it may be worse than everyone thought.
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He does not look good in this video. Barely holding it up for the video...

[frodo13]

Karma is a bitch

[sunwings]

Probably a strategic move. The timing was perfect. Not too early for the people to forget that he had the virus. Not too late to miss the elections.

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[lunaflare]

Whether true or not, I think this situation will inspire more public support (for President Trump).

[Franny]

I hope Trump and the First Lady get cured by hydroxychloroquine, and this will prove to the whole world that HCQ works.Or — that it's a false positive. That'd get a LOT of people talking.

Or when the governor of Ohio had a positive result, then had another test which was negative. Plus the 77(?) NFL players who were all positive quickly retested and were all negative.

Either way it would give him a chance to discuss with the public exactly how the "tests" are conducted, very few people actually know the creator said it should not be used for diagnosis of any disease, that it was unreliable as a diagnostic tool, just about anything could be found in a sample. However, Trump seems to pass on these opportunities :noidea:

I looked for the video of Kary Mullis explaining why the procedure should not be used as a diagnostic test but was unable to find it. If I do, I'll post it.

And a favorite test result:

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[greybeard]

With Trump its all a question of timing.
I suspect a lot happening that is not revealed yet,
Chris

[palehorse]

another false flag or whatever people call it nowadays?
smell fishy to me!

[Bill Ryan]

another false flag or whatever people call it nowadays?
smell fishy to me!Yes, this is all straight out of a movie script. The possibilities seem to be:


It's just a pure accident. What the heck.
It's a false positive. (In which case he'd certainly be re-tested soon, if not already, including by a number of different means.)
It's a strategic ploy, and he's actually fine and knows it.
He's been deliberately infected by an enemy in his circle (which would be VERY easy to do).

[apokalypse]

i just put this here in case if happen...

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have known conspiracy for long time Biden take over and there's a photo of Trump in the casket

just wait to see what elites doing...

[Open Minded Dude]

Is he sick? I suppose not. Like most.

Sad that the general public then acts as if he is sick (wishing good recovery ... from what???). They still do not know the difference between an infection (we have thousands of infections on a regular basis with viruses, bacteria etc.) and falling ill from it which happens rarely or never with a good immune system.

And yes, it could be a false positive and no Covid at all.

And yes, it could be a trick by Trump. Will we ever find out?

[Open Minded Dude]

I hope Trump and the First Lady get cured by hydroxychloroquine, and this will prove to the whole world that HCQ works. I think Brazilian president was also treated with HCQ, but MSM ignores this.
According to some news he is taking Remdesivir, so they will use that one to be pushed (at least Big Pharma will) I'm afraid.

[apokalypse]

I hope Trump and the First Lady get cured by hydroxychloroquine, and this will prove to the whole world that HCQ works. I think Brazilian president was also treated with HCQ, but MSM ignores this.
According to some news he is taking Remdesivir, so they will use that one to be pushed (at least Big Pharma will) I'm afraid.

i feel the same since Trump got covid...not sure what vaccine or drugs but i can see it happening...

[TomKat]

He might just have a cold. That would give a positive result for Coronavirus.

[Sue (Ayt)]

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His latest tweet is very sweet.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Here is a press conference with the doctors at Walter Reed who are treating Trump.
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[betoobig]

Trump stated he was taken hydroxicloriquine for prevention. We know it works, He has no virus. The day after the debate in a rally he said "enough is enough, we have enough evidence to get them, it is time something happens, these people are a bunch of crooks.... bunch of crooks".... Melania shows up with an awesome red dress, White hoouse iluminated in red and in UK various buildings too..... rig for red... this is but the greatest excuse to go on quarantine.... expect arrest of vip, and my guess is Hillary Clinton first, bc in one os Trump´s tweets he said "....we´ll go through this TOGETHER"... TO-GET-HER.... NEsara/gesara already started..... goign for more popcorn..... remember Trump is playing by "the art of war"
To me the question is... when the 10 days of darkness start? right after Hillary is arrested publicly or, if she´s already arrested, whenever made public?
Enjoy the show and much love

[PurpleLama]

The use of remdesivir is alarming, given what we know about the side effects of the drug.

[T Smith]

The use of remdesivir is alarming, given what we know about the side effects of the drug.


https://banned.video/watch?id=5f789e1c13eeb10df4263346

[Philippe]

I hope this illness is all a bluff. If not the medical world is stark steering mad!


https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/10/03/walter-reed-doctors-are-endangering-trumps-life/

To Dr. Scott Atlas: Walter Reed doctors are endangering Trump’s life
Oct
3
by Jon Rappoport

To Scott Atlas, White House coronavirus advisor

by Jon Rappoport

October 3, 2020

(To join our email list, click here.)

Scott:

If media reports are correct, the president is receiving 2 experimental drugs: the antibody cocktail, Regeneron, and the antiviral, Remdesivir.

Aside from their individual adverse effects…

THESE DRUGS HAVE NEVER BEEN STUDIED FOR THEIR COMBINED EFFECTS ON A PATIENT. AND NOW THAT PATIENT…THE FIRST PATIENT RECEIVING THEM…IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

You know the adverse effects of Remdesivir, Scott. They’re more than worrisome. Acute kidney injury, for example. And this drug has only emergency authorization, and it’s explicitly for patients who are SEVERE COVID cases. Trump is not a severe case. What’s going on? Why are the Walter Reed doctors piling on?

The other drug, Regeneron, the antibody cocktail, synthesized versions of mouse and human antibodies, is still in clinical trials. There is NO authorization for its use.

In past trials of antibody drugs, highly increased infection has occurred. Very dangerous.

And pray these doctors don’t suddenly opt for a ventilator. They could do that, if Trump’s condition worsens, because of the effects of the DRUGS. They will call those effects “serious COVID decline.”

In a large New York study of COVID patients in Trump’s age group, 97 percent of the patients receiving ventilator treatment died. Ventilator treatment, as you know, involves heavy and prolonged sedation.

The president is in a very dangerous situation.

Every damn doctor who has any ethics at all should be screaming bloody murder right now. This is not supposition. Would you prescribe a patient not one, but two highly experimental drugs, each of which has very damaging effects? Would you prescribe them TOGETHER? EVER? Especially when the patient is not close to being seriously ill? Especially when the drugs’ combined effects have never been studied?

WHY ARE THE WALTER REED DOCTORS TREATING TRUMP AS IF HE WERE IN DESPERATE STRAITS?

They’re going after the president as if he’s hanging on to life by a thread and they have to throw everything they’ve got at him.

Who is watching over the president’s life? Are these doctors trying to kill him?

GET BUSY, SCOTT. NOW.

[Ratszinger]

So Pelosi comes out saying she still has arrows in her quiver and a week later all the republican opposition and the prez and first lady come down with the contagion! Just brings out a big HMMMMMMM doesn't it?

[Tintin]

another false flag or whatever people call it nowadays?
smell fishy to me!Yes, this is all straight out of a movie script. The possibilities seem to be:

He's been deliberately infected by an enemy in his circle (which would be VERY easy to do).
[/LIST]

Yes, interesting. It was the first thought that crossed my mind. But, as you say, one of a few possibilities :sherlock: :noidea:

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

A reassuring statement. He looks and sounds OK. And some interesting language when he speaks of "miracles" coming.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312525833505058816

[Agape]

I hope this illness is all a bluff. If not the medical world is stark steering mad!


https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/10/03/walter-reed-doctors-are-endangering-trumps-life/

To Dr. Scott Atlas: Walter Reed doctors are endangering Trump’s life
Oct
3
by Jon Rappoport

To Scott Atlas, White House coronavirus advisor

by Jon Rappoport

October 3, 2020

(To join our email list, click here.)

Scott:

If media reports are correct, the president is receiving 2 experimental drugs: the antibody cocktail, Regeneron, and the antiviral, Remdesivir.

Aside from their individual adverse effects…

THESE DRUGS HAVE NEVER BEEN STUDIED FOR THEIR COMBINED EFFECTS ON A PATIENT. AND NOW THAT PATIENT…THE FIRST PATIENT RECEIVING THEM…IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

You know the adverse effects of Remdesivir, Scott. They’re more than worrisome. Acute kidney injury, for example. And this drug has only emergency authorization, and it’s explicitly for patients who are SEVERE COVID cases. Trump is not a severe case. What’s going on? Why are the Walter Reed doctors piling on?

The other drug, Regeneron, the antibody cocktail, synthesized versions of mouse and human antibodies, is still in clinical trials. There is NO authorization for its use.

In past trials of antibody drugs, highly increased infection has occurred. Very dangerous.

And pray these doctors don’t suddenly opt for a ventilator. They could do that, if Trump’s condition worsens, because of the effects of the DRUGS. They will call those effects “serious COVID decline.”

In a large New York study of COVID patients in Trump’s age group, 97 percent of the patients receiving ventilator treatment died. Ventilator treatment, as you know, involves heavy and prolonged sedation.

The president is in a very dangerous situation.

Every damn doctor who has any ethics at all should be screaming bloody murder right now. This is not supposition. Would you prescribe a patient not one, but two highly experimental drugs, each of which has very damaging effects? Would you prescribe them TOGETHER? EVER? Especially when the patient is not close to being seriously ill? Especially when the drugs’ combined effects have never been studied?

WHY ARE THE WALTER REED DOCTORS TREATING TRUMP AS IF HE WERE IN DESPERATE STRAITS?

They’re going after the president as if he’s hanging on to life by a thread and they have to throw everything they’ve got at him.

Who is watching over the president’s life? Are these doctors trying to kill him?

GET BUSY, SCOTT. NOW.


“Buddy, they are just following the protocol. They’re treating the same person who has ordered them to follow these protocols, long ago.

It’s life or death now not because it would be likely to happen but precisely because they had to intervene and yes all these drugs may have lots of nasty side effects or long time effects on physical balance.

But, but, but. Since he’s on AAA they’ll probably treat him just right and admit whatever they want about it.

Ones health is usually private matter and it should stay so.

Awful 🦕

[Eric J (Viking)]

Found this on my travels...

http://www.rumormillnews.com/pix/IMG_0072001.jpg

Viking

[wondering]

There is hardly enough salt in the world for me to take with this above possibility about Trump and possible coming arrests. And yet, the human psyche loves to hope. I guess we will see.

[Bill Ryan]

There is hardly enough salt in the world for me to take with this above possibility about Trump and possible coming arrests. And yet, the human psyche loves to hope. I guess we will see.viking, you missed the deadline. The arrests were stated (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112455-Trump-Tests-Positive-for-Covid-19&p=1381574&viewfull=1#post1381574) to be happening "tonight". That was Friday, 2 October. It's now Sunday the 4th. Do read what you post. :)

No more of this silliness, please... this is a potentially serious situation, in a potentially serious month.

:focus:

[Eric J (Viking)]

There is hardly enough salt in the world for me to take with this above possibility about Trump and possible coming arrests. And yet, the human psyche loves to hope. I guess we will see.viking, you missed the deadline. The arrests were stated (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112455-Trump-Tests-Positive-for-Covid-19&p=1381574&viewfull=1#post1381574) to be happening "tonight". That was Friday, 2 October. It's now Sunday the 4th. Do read what you post. :)

No more of this silliness, please... this is a potentially serious situation, in a potentially serious month.

:focus:

Hi Bill

There are times when I think this is all just a play, and we move on to the next chapter.

I seriously never take anything serious.

Watching the play unfold I find with intrigue more than worry.

Hope all is well with you.

Viking

[Karen (Geophyz)]

Found this on my travels...

http://www.rumormillnews.com/pix/IMG_0072001.jpg

Viking

Sorry, I simply do not believe a word of this.

[Brightstar]

Let’s just see how this plays out...interesting times....

[Sue (Ayt)]

This just came up a few minutes ago:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312864232711520257?s=20

[Franny]

I mentioned in my post above that Kari Mullis said PCR is a procedure, not a diagnostic test. I didn't find the one I wanted but this one from Spiro will do.

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[onawah]

Is President Trump’s “Illness” Really a Commercial for Regeneron’s New COVID Drug?
October 4, 2020
Commentary by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

"The same day it was announced that President Trump was tested positive for COVID, it was immediately announced that the President was being administered a new experimental COVID drug, Regeneron’s REGN-COV2.

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/White-house-physician-letter.jpg

Business journals apparently already had press releases ready about the drug, and the company’s stock immediately went up on Friday.

FiercePharma, one the Pharmaceutical companies’ main marketing trade publications, was one of the first to publish the story:

In a bombshell development Thursday, President Donald J. Trump tested positive for COVID-19, sending shockwaves through the country with just weeks until Election Day. One unanswered question was how the president’s physicians would navigate an uncertain treatment course—and an unproven antibody cocktail from Regeneron is now in the spotlight.

Trump’s personal doctor confirmed Friday that the president was treated with an 8-gram dose of Regeneron’s investigational antibody cocktail for COVID-19, dubbed REGN-COV2, along with aspirin and famotidine, better known as branded Pepcid. He’s also taking zinc and vitamin D, two typical immune-boosting supplements.

Trump’s early treatment with Regeneron’s cocktail was an immediate boon for investors with the drugmaker’s stock trading up around $20—or 3%—in after-market hours Friday.

Regeneron does not even have emergency use approval yet. FiercePharma also reports that Regeneron’s CEO Len Schleifer has been a guest at the White House during the pandemic.

Kyle Blankenship reports:

Unlike another highly touted COVID-19 hopeful, Gilead Sciences’s Veklury (remdesivir), REGN-COV2 has no emergency use approvals anywhere in the world—a fact that could underscore Trump’s relationship with New York-based Regeneron and CEO Len Schleifer, who has been a guest at the White House during the pandemic.

The company said late Friday that Trump’s doctors had requested the therapy under its compassionate use program.

An eventual clean bill of health for Trump could go a long way to boosting confidence in Regeneron’s therapy, which is already raising hopes of $6 billion in sales per year—assuming it can secure the FDA’s approval.

Compared with vaccines, which are being supplied to the U.S. government at $24 on average for a two-dose regimen, antibody drugs could be far more expensive, as they are typically priced well into the thousands, Morningstar analyst Karen Andersen told clients last month. But antibodies could be particularly useful for older adults, whose immune systems may not respond as well to vaccination. (Full article.) (Emphasis Added)

President Trump has transferred more wealth to Big Pharma during the COVID Plandemic than probably all the previous administrations put together, with his Operation Warp Speed and other emergency measures that have given hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars to Big Pharma.

With the Rockefellers controlling the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. and around the world, this might have been President Trump’s ticket stamped to assure his second term."

[happyuk]

This just came up a few minutes ago:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312864232711520257?s=20


It's been a very interesting journey...

There seems to be hint of finality in that phrase, as though a chapter in Trump's life is coming to a close.

This is pure know-nothing speculation on my part, but it will be interesting to see what the October surprise actually is, if there actually is one...

[Sue (Ayt)]

Latest update from the doctors treating Trump:
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They are saying he will be discharged later today.

[Sue (Ayt)]

He's arriving back at the whitehouse now. This youtube is live:
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[Sue (Ayt)]

And here is his statement for today.
"Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313267615083761665?s=20

[Ratszinger]

Found this on my travels...

http://www.rumormillnews.com/pix/IMG_0072001.jpg

Viking

Sorry, I simply do not believe a word of this.

They have bunkers for the president's safety and many of them, some not even public knowledge. There is nothing at all secure about Walter Reed Hospital when they have underground bunkers with full medical facilities ready and waiting in more than one location! MAC headquarters at SCOTT AFB used to have flying hospitals and the Public Health Service now owns them after MAC was done away with. These alone would be all he would need and he could fly anywhere in the world in one of them. I used to work on one when stationed at SCOTT in the early 80's. So this statement can't be true in my opinion. There would be no need to take Trump to a civilian hospital if the scenario described took place. I can't imagine they'd think they were safe in a hospital.

[onawah]

Expose Warp Speed' With Whitney Webb, Chips Gels And Sensors On The Way & The Trump COVID Psyop
17,766 views•Streamed live on Oct 6, 2020
The Last American Vagabond
101K subscribers

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(Also posted here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111213-The-planned-takedown-of-America-now--June-2020--in-full-swing.&p=1382377&viewfull=1#post1382377 )
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https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/operation-warp-speed-is-using-a-cia-linked-contractor-to-keep-covid-19-vaccine-contracts-secret/274769

"Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret
The Last American Vagabond – by Whitney Webb

$6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests.

Last Tuesday, while most Americans were distracted by the first US presidential debate, NPR quietly reported that the US government’s Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership launched by the Trump administration to rapidly develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine, had taken the unusual step of awarding contracts to vaccine companies, not directly, but through a secretive defense contractor.

Though NPR named the defense contractor—South Carolina–based Advanced Technology International—they declined to explore the company’s deep ties to the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense and how ATI is helping to lead those agencies’ efforts to militarize health care and create a surveillance panopticon that not only monitors the world around us but our physiology as well.

The “secret” vaccine contracts awarded through ATI as part of Warp Speed total approximately $6 billion, accounting for the majority of Operation Warp Speed’s $10 billion budget. Both Paul Mango, Health and Human Services’ deputy chief of staff for policy, and Robert Kadlec, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response (ASPR), personally signed off on the contracts.

Operation Warp Speed, which officially involves the combined efforts of HHS and the military to deliver over 300 million Covid-19 vaccines to Americans by next January, is a highly secretive program dominated by military personnel, most of whom have no experience in health care or vaccine production. The Trump administration has often compared Warp Speed to the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.

Several very unsettling revelations about the true nature and scope of Warp Speed, including the out-sized role of ATI, began to emerge starting last Monday. Yet, most of this new information was not covered by US news outlets due to the media frenzy surrounding the first presidential debate and the subsequent news that President Trump and several other politicians and White House officials had tested positive for Covid-19.

NPR noted that the decision to use a nongovernment intermediary like ATI to issue the coronavirus vaccine contracts, as opposed to the government itself directly awarding those contracts, allows Operation Warp Speed to “bypass the regulatory oversight and transparency of traditional federal contracting mechanisms.” This means that, among other things, the vaccine contracts awarded under Operation Warp Speed are unlikely to be publicly released in the near future, if ever.

The report from NPR also noted that the Congressional Research Service reported just last year that using such intermediaries to award contracts can result in “significant risks, including potentially diminished oversight and exemption from laws and regulations designed to protect government and taxpayer interests.” Proponents of this unorthodox way of issuing contracts, known as “other transaction agreements” (OTAs), often argue that utilizing this alternative method for awarding contracts significantly hastens the process. However, the Congressional Research Service also noted that the Department of Defense, which has been increasingly relying on OTAs in recent years, has never tracked the information necessary to determine if OTAs are actually faster than traditional contracting methods. This suggests that claims regarding the alleged “speed advantage” of OTAs are based on assumptions rather than data-based evidence.

Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Pfizer, and Sanofi are among the companies that have received these covert vaccine contracts through the OTA authorized by Operation Warp Speed and managed by ATI. Many of these companies, particularly Johnson & Johnson, have been involved in scandals related to selling and marketing products they knew to be unsafe to the public. This makes the lack of oversight and their exemption from federal regulations (including safety regulations) an issue of concern regarding their participation in Warp Speed.

This concern is further compounded by the fact that, on September 21, HHS Secretary Alex Azar told FOX Business that all Operation Warp Speed vaccine manufacturers would be exempt from liability for any damages their vaccines may cause and that those who administer their vaccines would also not be liable for damages. “Under the PREP Act, which is a provision in Congress, any treatment or vaccine for purposes of a national emergency pandemic like this actually comes with liability protection. Both the product as well as those who administer it or provide it,” Azar stated during the televised interview. The PREP Act that Azar referenced was originally signed into law in 2005 but was updated this past April, a few weeks before Operation Warp Speed was announced, so that vaccine and therapeutic manufacturers “cannot be sued for money damages in court” over injuries caused by medical countermeasures for Covid-19.

Notably, the architect of that controversial April update to the PREP Act, HHS ASPR Kadlec, is intimately involved in deciding who is awarded Operation Warp Speed contracts. STAT News reported last week, citing senior HHS officials, that Kadlec “personally signs off” on every business agreement made on behalf of HHS for Operation Warp Speed. In addition to his past activities in lobbying for intelligence and defense contractors, Kadlec also previously worked as a lobbyist for the scandal-ridden biodefense company Emergent Biosolutions, which is also a major player in Operation Warp Speed as well as the manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine BioThrax.

Despite top HHS officials allegedly overseeing every single one of these business agreements, NPR was told by HHS that the department has “no records” of the $1.6 billion Operation Warp Speed contract with Novavax, which was awarded through ATI. This is a strange response given that HHS is supposedly the lead agency overseeing Operation Warp Speed, yet they somehow lack a copy of a massive vaccine contract at the heart of the operation. NPR also asked the DoD for a copy of the Novavax contract and have yet to receive a response.

At a press conference in mid-September, Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, a key figure in Operation Warp Speed, told reporters: “With respect to the contracts, the contracts are between ourselves, the United States government and private entities, and they are releasable to an extent. Obviously everything cannot be released, but they are releasable to an extent and they will be made available at some point in time.” Ostrowski declined to elaborate on when that “point in time” would be.

Also odd is that ATI told NPR that, at the time they were awarding these secretive vaccine contracts, it was never explicitly told by the Department of Defense that these contracts were part of Operation Warp Speed, with a former ATI executive describing that key fact as “invisible” to the company.

Spooks and Skunkworks
Advanced Technology International (ATI) is a nonprofit company that organizes consortia of public, private, and academic organizations that perform research and development (R&D) on behalf of the US government. ATI mostly manages R&D consortia for the Department of Defense for things like weapons manufacturing, metal casting and forging, ship production, and technology aimed at countering so-called weapons of mass destruction. They also manage the Border Security Technology Consortium (BSTC) for the Department of Homeland Security, primarily surveillance technology companies, among other DHS research projects.

ATI only currently manages two consortia that have any relationship to health care, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) and the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC). The MTEC, operating on behalf of the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, aims to “accelerate the development of revolutionary medical solutions,” which include gene editing, nanotechnology, “telehealth solutions,” artificial limbs, and brain implants. They are also currently developing a wearable device that would diagnose individuals with Covid-19 before symptoms appear.

The other ATI-managed “health-care” consortia, the MCDC, is focused on “advanced development efforts to support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) medical pharmaceutical and diagnostic requirements to counter Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threat agents.”

They are specifically involved in “enabling prototype technologies for therapeutic medical countermeasures targeting viral, bacterial and biological toxin targets of interest to the DoD,” including the development of vaccines. ATI told NPR that they were contacted by the DoD sometime between March and April, before Warp Speed was announced in May, and asked to issue requests for proposals related to Covid-19 from MCDC members.

MCDC members include Emergent Biosolutions as well as DoD/CIA contractor Battelle Memorial Institute, with both of those companies having unsettling ties to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Another member of the MCDC is CIA/NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and weapons manufacturer General Dynamics. MCDC’s membership has expanded significantly following ATI’s acquisition by Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), the principal sponsor of the Dark Winter bioterror simulation, with eighteen new members added just three months after the acquisition had concluded.

In addition, there is considerable overlap between the MCDC and the vaccine companies that have been awarded secretive contracts through ATI as part of Operation Warp Speed. Sanofi, Novavax, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson are all MCDC members as well as recipients of Warp Speed vaccine contracts. In addition, Emergent Biosolutions, another MCDC member, was awarded a major Warp Speed contract to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines, but that contract was awarded through HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), not ATI.

ANSER’s Rise, Its Fall, and Its Saving Grace
In February 2017, ATI was acquired by Analytic Services Inc. ANSER, like ATI, manages R&D projects for the federal government, historically for DHS, with ANSER being the long-time manager of one of the two DHS federally funded research and development centers. However, ANSER also provides services to the DoD, NASA, the State Department, and the US intelligence community.

ANSER was originally founded as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation in the late 1950s, but it became a much larger part of government operations, particularly in the realm of Homeland Security, after Ruth David became its president and CEO in 1998. Prior to becoming ANSER’s CEO, David had been the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA, where, among other things, she laid the groundwork for what would become In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm responsible for the rise of several Silicon Valley behemoths such as Google and Palantir. David led ANSER until 2015. After David took charge, ANSER became an early leader in promoting the use of biometric and facial recognition software by US law enforcement agencies and became a key driver in pivoting the government toward “homeland defense” and “homeland security” in the years leading up to the events of September 11, 2001.

As journalist Margie Burns noted in a 2002 article, the rise of “homeland defense” as a centerpiece of US government policy, including the push to create a new “homeland security” agency, began with former State Department official Richard Armitage’s alleged coining of the term in 1997 in a National Defense Policy document. In the years that followed, this pivot toward seeing the American homeland as a future battlefield was heavily promoted by a web of media outlets owned by South Korean cult leader and CIA asset Sun Myong Moon, including the Washington Times, Insight Magazine, and UPI. All published numerous articles either penned by ANSER analysts or that heavily cited ANSER reports and employees regarding the need for a greatly expanded “homeland security” apparatus.

In October 1999, at David’s behest, ANSER created the Institute for Homeland Security (ANSER-IHS). Though fully funded and established at that time, but for reasons still unclear, the ANSER-IHS was not formally launched until April 2001. The Institute’s first director was Randall Larsen, who was at that time—and still is today—a close associate of current HHS ASPR Robert Kadlec. Though ANSER has never explained the reason behind the lengthy delay in officially launching ANSER-IHS, it is possible that the timing was related to the introduction of H.R.1158 in March 2001. That bill called for the creation of the National Homeland Security Agency, which was the foundation of the later Department of Homeland Security.

One month after ANSER-IHS was created, Insight Magazine published an article in May 2001 entitled “Preparing for the Next Pearl Harbor,” which heavily cited ANSER and its Institute for Homeland Security as being among “the nation’s top experts” in warning that a terrorist attack on the US mainland was imminent. It also stated that “the first responders on tomorrow’s battlefield won’t be soldiers, but city ambulance workers and small-town firefighters.”

The following month, ANSER-IHS cohosted the Dark Winter exercise, with two top ANSER-IHS officials, Mark DeMier and Randall Larsen, cowriting the exercise with Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies (now the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security). O’Toole, at the time, was on the ANSER-IHS board of advisers.

As previously detailed in the Engineering Contagion series, several of those involved in Dark Winter had foreknowledge of the 2001 anthrax attacks, and Dark Winter itself originated what became the initial, yet false, narrative for those attacks—that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together to conduct acts of bioterrorism on US soil. However, the anthrax used in the attacks was quickly determined to have either originated from a US military lab or a US defense contractor.

ANSER’s convenient gamble that the US government would imminently pivot toward homeland security soon after April 2001 paid off tremendously. Thanks largely to the fear stoked by 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Department of Homeland Security was created, and ANSER-IHS quickly became the first government think tank, that is, federally funded research and development center.

Not long after its formal creation as an agency, DHS established its Science and Technology (S & T) Directorate in 2003 with the mission “to protect the homeland by providing . . . officials with state-of-the-art technology.” DHS later announced in 2004 that it had “selected [ANSER] to operate the Homeland Security Institute . . . [f]ollowing a full and open competition procurement process conducted by [DHS] Science and Technology.” This is despite this very institute having already been funded and established by ANSER in 1999 and then launched in 2001.

From 2009 to 2013, the head of DHS Science and Technology Directorate was Dark Winter coauthor and bioterror alarmist Tara O’Toole, who had long-standing, close ties to ANSER-IHS, as previously mentioned. With O’Toole at the helm, DHS focused on “more robust public-private sector partnerships” and “increasing the budget for innovative, longer-term technology projects,” such as those overseen by ANSER on the behalf of DHS. She also made it her mission to model the S & T Directorate more closely after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

During her tenure, DHS also claimed to be “unaware” of how the department’s multibillion dollar research expenditures were being used, suggesting a lack of oversight in the millions of dollars DHS S & T was funneling to the ANSER-run research center and the other DHS research center, which is run by the equally shady MITRE Corporation.

Unexpectedly for ANSER, DHS declined to renew ANSER’s federally funded research and development center contract in October 2016. They instead awarded that contract to the RAND Corporation, which created a new research and development center with “a different set of focus areas, aligned more closely with current DHS priorities.” ANSER’s apparent plans for restructuring following the loss of this critical contract included its decision to acquire ATI, which took place just a few months later in February 2017.

The acquisition of ATI gave ANSER access to the key OTA research consortia that ATI manages, ensuring that ANSER’s board of former intelligence officials, military officers, and defense-industry executives continued to wield considerable influence over the direction of government-funded research projects. Per the press release, the acquisition was aimed at combining ANSER’s “government problem-solving heritage with ATI’s technical expertise,” allowing ANSER to continue to execute “thought leadership independent of commercial influences” over the “important defense technology developments” being overseen by ATI. Thus, whatever decisions are being made by ATI with respect to these secretive Operation Warp Speed vaccine contracts, it is ultimately ANSER that is signing off on them.

Mess Hall
Given that Operation Warp Speed’s official purpose is to use taxpayer funds to produce, accelerate, and distribute a medical treatment (i. e., vaccine) to Americans, there is no reason for such extreme secrecy and also no reason for the excessive role of the military and secretive contractors like ATI and ANSER in the execution of this “public health” effort.

While the officially stated purpose of Warp Speed makes the extreme secrecy involved seem not just unnecessary but absurd, it is worth noting that several recent revelations regarding Warp Speed’s structure, strategy, and execution strongly suggest that the reason for the operation’s covert nature is because its scope goes well beyond its publicly stated purpose.

For instance, Stat News noted last week that Operation Warp Speed “looks a lot more like a military operation than a science project,” adding that “roughly 60 military officials—including at least four generals—are involved in the leadership of Operation Warp Speed, many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development.” That report also pointed out that “just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart aren’t employed by the Department of Defense.”

Though the military’s initial justification for playing such a major role in Warp Speed was related to its “expertise” in logistics and supply chains, the recent release of the operation’s vaccine distribution strategy makes no direct mention of the military’s role in those aspects of Warp Speed. So noticeable was the disconnect that, soon after the release of the official distribution strategy, the Department of Defense “clarified” the military’s role in the operation by publishing an interview on its website with Lt. Gen. Ostrowski, who is leading Warp Speed’s efforts to supply, produce, and distribute vaccines. Per Ostrowski, the reason the military is playing such an outsize role in Warp Speed is because of the military’s “program management and contracting expertise.”

Yet, as this article has shown, Warp Speed contracts are being funneled through secretive contractors to avoid scrutiny and are apparently not being made available to HHS, the civilian agency supposedly “co-leading” Warp Speed alongside the military.

Such examples of extreme secrecy and conflicting statements appear to be just scratching the surface of what Operation Warp Speed truly aims to accomplish. An upcoming series of investigative reports produced by this author in collaboration with Ryan Cristián and Derrick Broze of The Last American Vagabond will explore in depth this operation and the individuals leading it in order to expose Operation Warp Speed as the most clandestine, and arguably most dangerous, US military operation in decades. Unlike such well-funded and secretive military operations of years past, this one is aimed directly at the American people.

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