Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases

Seven U.S. servicemembers contracted COVID-19-like symptoms in Wuhan in October 2019

Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.

The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.

The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games "publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format" by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.

The potential COVID-19 illnesses from the American participants in the Wuhan World Military Games appear to have been a closely guarded secret of the Defense Department. Chinese authorities have suggested since as early as February 2020 that America could have unleashed COVID-19 into Wuhan through their participation in the World Military Games. Former Biden Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told the Washington Post in June 2021 that the military had "no knowledge" of any COVID-19 infections among the troops that participated in those games.

The first Trump administration issued similar statements regarding the Wuhan games. In June 2020, the Pentagon told the Prospect that it did not test any of the American troops that participated in the games because they were held "prior to the reported outbreak."

The games were held within close proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Chinese scientists, backed by U.S. taxpayer funds, conducted risky gain-of-function research on the same sort of bat coronaviruses that caused the pandemic. That research, which was supported by former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, "almost certainly caused COVID-19," Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright told the Free Beacon. …

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-administration-concealed-congressionally-mandated-report-on-earliest-suspected-american-covid-cases/

Ezra A. Cohen

Why would the Biden team conceal this from the American people?

Andrew Kerr

NEW: Seven Americans may have contracted COVID in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the start of the pandemic, according to bombshell military report obtained by @FreeBeacon that the Biden admin should have made public over two years ago.

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>Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases

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Official Statement of Hon. Dave Weldon, MD Regarding Recent Withdrawal of Nomination for CDC

Official Statement of Hon. Dave Weldon, MD Regarding Recent Withdrawal of Nomination for CDC

Twelve hours before my scheduled confirmation hearing in the Senate, I received a phone call from an assistant at the White House informing me that my nomination to be Director of the CDC was being withdrawn because there were not enough votes to get me confirmed. I then spoke to HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy, who was very upset. He was told the same thing and said he had been looking forward to working with me at CDC. He said I was the perfect person for the job.

Bobby told me that earlier that morning he had breakfast with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who said she now had reservations about my nomination and was considering voting no. I had a very pleasant meeting with her two weeks prior, where she expressed no reservations. But at my meeting with her staff on March 11, they were suddenly very hostile—a bad sign. They repeatedly accused me of being “antivax,” even though I reminded them that I actually give hundreds of vaccines every year in my medical practice. More than 20 years ago, while in Congress, I raised some concerns about childhood vaccine safety, and for some reason, Collins’ staff suddenly couldn’t get over that—no matter what I said back.

There are 12 Republicans and 11 Democrats on the committee, so losing one was a problem if all the Democrats voted no, which they have been doing. I can assume that the White House staff had my nomination withdrawn also because the Republican Chairman, Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, was also voting no. Ironically, he is also an internist like me, and I have known him for years and thought we were friends. But he too was throwing around the claim that I was “antivax” or that I believed vaccines cause autism—which I have never said. He actually once asked that my nomination be withdrawn. So, he was a big problem, and losing Collins, too, was clearly too much for the White House. The President is a busy man doing good work for our nation, and the last thing he needs is a controversy about the CDC.

The concern of many people is that Big Pharma was behind this, which is probably true. They are, hands-down, the most powerful lobby organization in Washington, DC—giving millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle. They also purchase millions of dollars of advertising in newspapers, magazines, and television. For any news organization to take on Big Pharma could be suicide. Many media outlets actually carry water for Pharma. They also give generously to medical societies, colleges, and universities. I have learned the hard way: don’t mess with Pharma.

I’ve been told that Big Pharma had desperately tried to get rid of Bobby Kennedy but were unable due to the strong support of President Trump. Many people feel Big Pharma actually feared me more than they feared Bobby because of my credibility and my knowledge of science and medicine. So, if they had to live with Bobby for four years, they were definitely not going to have both him and me, and they put serious pressure on Collins and Cassidy.

My big sin was that as a congressman 25 years ago, I had the temerity to take on the CDC and Big Pharma on two critical childhood vaccine safety issues. Hundreds of parents had been coming to me from all over the country, insisting that their child had been seriously damaged by the inoculations. Some claimed it caused autism. The parents made two different assertions. One was the fact that the FDA, CDC, and Pharma had allowed a tremendous amount of a neurotoxic preservative called thimerosal into the infant schedule—and that the thimerosal was the cause of the problem.

Under pressure from me and many other members of the House, both Democrat and Republican, the CDC and Pharma removed the neurotoxic thimerosal—but it took them years to do it. One of the things that seemed to unite those of us in the House who engaged on this was that none of us took money from Pharma. Bernie Sanders actually joined us.

CDC ended up publishing a research study claiming the mercury had done no harm, but there were credible accusations that CDC had incorrectly manipulated the data to exonerate themselves. If confirmed, I was planning on going back into the CDC database and quietly investigating this claim. Ironically, I was hoping to find no evidence of corruption in the science at CDC. Maybe hearing it from me would have reassured the public and helped improve the currently somewhat tarnished image of CDC and Pharma. …

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But I, unfortunately, also had the temerity to take on CDC and Pharma regarding another childhood vaccine safety issue—the safety of the measles vaccine called MMR. More than 25 years ago, there were a series of articles published by a British pediatric gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield.

He had seen many parents who claimed that after the MMR, their child had not only deteriorated developmentally but had also become fussy eaters and developed diarrhea. He did colonoscopies on the children and discovered that they had a new form of inflammatory bowel disease. His research was later duplicated, and to this day, he has been credited for defining this form of childhood inflammatory bowel disease.

Wakefield published 15 papers in all. Only one was withdrawn. The one that created the big controversy was published in a journal called Lancet, and one of the co-authors on the paper was a highly respected Irish virologist by the name of O'Leary. I actually knew of O'Leary. I used to take care of AIDS patients prior to going to Congress, and I knew of O'Leary's reputation as a solid scientist. One of the complications the AIDS patients were developing was a form of cancer called Kaposi Sarcoma, and O'Leary had shown that the cancer occurred in the AIDS patients when there was co-infection with a second virus called Herpes Simplex Type 8.

Wakefield decided to give some of the colon biopsy specimens to O'Leary, who was able to show, using a technique called PCR, that the inflammatory bowel disease biopsies in these children contained the vaccine strain measles viruses. The live virus in the vaccine was supposed to be weakened and not cause illness. This suggested that the children were not able to handle the viral particles and that it was causing an infection in their bowels, which also might have been affecting their central nervous system and causing the autistic features.

When this article was published, thousands of British parents started refusing the MMR, and there were measles outbreaks. British health officials had their hands full. They decided to get the journal Lancet to withdraw the article, and they actually got O'Leary to withdraw his research findings. I was following all of this closely and had actually met with O'Leary and I had looked at his biopsy micrographs and his PCR findings. It certainly looked to me like the vaccine particles were causing the problem in these children, and I was surprised that O'Leary withdrew his assertions.

I then called O'Leary on the phone and asked him why he was doing this. There was a very long, pregnant pause. He then said that it had taken him many years to get to the place where he was in the scientific community, and after another pause, he said he had four small children at home. I had small children at home myself at the time, and I understood what he was saying. If he didn't do it, he was going to be fired. He was going to be ruined.

British officials were not satisfied with just getting the journal to withdraw the article and getting Dr. O'Leary to withdraw his claims. They then decided to begin proceedings to take away Dr. Wakefield's medical license and one of his lead co-authors. Wakefield, by this time, had moved to the United States, and to defend himself in court would have cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars, so he let them take his license away. But his lead co-author, Dr. Simon Murch, was still practicing medicine in England and decided to defend himself in court, and the government lost and they were not able to take his license away. If Wakefield had the money to defend himself, he would never have lost his license. The court documents clearly show that Wakefield and his co-authors had not done anything unethical or inappropriate, and their work was possibly valid.

But that was all Big Pharma needed. They could go around, saying and feeding it to the media that the research had been withdrawn, and Wakefield lost his license. But I looked at the micrographs, and it sure looked to me like there were vaccine-strain measles particles infecting the bowels of these kids.

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The CDC was charged with the responsibility of repeating the Wakefield research and showing that the measles vaccine was safe, but they never did it the right way. They decided to do epidemiologic studies instead of a clinical study. Again, as in the mercury study, there were claims made that indicate that there was a problem with MMR. CDC was accused again of changing the protocol and data analysis until the association went away.

Ironically, I talked with Wakefield after all of this was over. He agreed with me that we have to vaccinate our kids for measles. He thought the solution was to give the vaccine at a slightly older age, like they do in many European countries. Or we might be able to do research and figure out why some kids have a bad reaction to the MMR. Clearly, Big Pharma didn't want me in the CDC investigating any of this.

There are a lot of additional ironies in all of this. I believe the CDC is mostly made up of really good people who really care about public health for our nation, though its credibility has been seriously tarnished because of the failures in the way the COVID-19 crisis was managed. 40% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans don't trust the CDC. Many don't trust Pharma as well. I really wanted to try to make the CDC a better, more respected agency, and killing my nomination may have the opposite effect. Distrust may worsen.

I also have a lot of respect for the pharmaceutical industry. I practice internal medicine and I use medications in caring for my patients that were invented by American pharmaceutical companies. I can tell you firsthand they are very effective and help a lot of people. The new ones are outrageously expensive, but once they go off-patent, they can become very affordable and very life-saving for many people with chronic and acute illnesses.

But I, unfortunately, am viewed very negatively by the industry that I use on a daily basis to help my patients. Bobby Kennedy is a good man who really is passionate about improving the health of the American people. President Trump did a good thing in making him Secretary of HHS. Hopefully, they can find someone for CDC who can survive the confirmation process and get past Pharma and find some answers.

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Nicole Shanahan

Meet Dr. Dave Weldon.

He served honorably in the U.S. Army.

He represented Florida in Congress for 7 terms.

He’s a Christian, physician, and father.

And in November, President Trump tapped him to be CDC Director.

But then his nomination was pulled.

>Official Statement of Hon. Dave Weldon, MD Regarding Recent Withdrawal of Nomination for CDC

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Here's our conversation:

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Trump set to sign executive orders to boost US coal

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-sign-executive-orders-boost-coal-industry-sources-say-2025-04-08/

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Trump is expected to sign executive orders to boost coal

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.

According to two senior White House officials, Trump will use his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet rising U.S. power demand amid growth in data centers, artificial intelligence and electric cars. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue before the president’s announcement, expected Tuesday afternoon.

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-8-2025

Kristi Noem dodges kicks from migrant suspect as she leads ICE deportation raids in Phoenix

Noem led about 100 federal agents on an early morning raid Tuesday in Arizona’s capital, where they nabbed three illegal migrants wanted on charges from weapons and drug offenses to running a money laundering operation.

The Post was there as she dodged kicks from a suspect wearing slip-on shoes, and gamely told him, “You’re not scaring me with your Croc.”

The multi-agency task force — led by Phoenix Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and joined by a coterie of federal law enforcement and immigration agencies — nabbed three illegal immigrant felons with extensive criminal histories.

Noem, clad in police tactical gear including a flak jacket, sported her two-tone gold Rolex as she greeted agents from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration in a dingy underground parking garage. She shook hands with officers as she thanked them for their work and pledged to get them the resources they need to do their jobs better.

“The effort of cooperation we have between agencies is getting turned onto steroids. We have this being multiplied across the country exponentially, now anyone who’s in this country illegally that’s committing crimes and has broken our laws will face consequences,” Noem told The Post. …

https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/kristi-noem-dodges-kicks-from-migrant-suspect-as-she-leads-ice-deportation-raids-in-phoenix/

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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accompanied a multi-agency law enforcement raid on wanted criminals on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz.