“To prepare a full and complete account”
As mentioned in the introduction, a nearly half-million dollar grant was paid to the University of Virginia by the Rockefeller Foundation to help cover the costs of developing the Covid Commission Planning Group (CCPG).1 A year later, the group grew some legs – and teeth. Philip Zelikow, who directs the group, spent some time arranging the “adviser” team. It is a long list of doctors, pharmaceutical company board members, former politicians, public policy makers, and former FDA officials (or, as some might call them, “stakeholders”) containing a lot of the usual suspects.
Over the last year, this eclectic assembly drafted at least forty “work plans to to guide the work of a Covid Commission”, including one titled “The Bio Revolution.” Their other accomplishments include,
The launch of an informational CCPG website; media relations assistance that led to a dozen major stories and editorials endorsing the CCPG’s work; guidance provided by Miller Center scholars and senior fellows; and fiduciary responsibilities in managing the working group’s finances and philanthropic grants.
https://millercenter.org/covidcpg
In addition to these actions, meetings have been held by the CCPG with senior White House officials and members of Congress to urge the Biden administration to formally establish a National Covid Commission. After all, the solitary goal of this organization is to create demand for one. The COVID-19 pandemic caused so many unnecessary deaths because we did not respond to it in the right way, Zelikow argues. The government failed in its response, we are obligated to investigate why, and we need to establish practices and policies that ensure the correct response because we must do better next time.
A National Covid Commission could help America—and the world—heal. In early 2021, four foundations (Schmidt Futures, the Skoll Foundation, Stand Together, and The Rockefeller Foundation) created the Covid Commission Planning Group to lay the foundation for a future inquiry.
The “informational” CCPG website features many emotionally loaded images and provides a long-winded description of the group and their goal. It is presumably written by Zelikow himself, and reads like a gruesome tale of American tragedy and horror. In the end, though, a band of patriotic heroes comes along to protect the helpless masses from any more harm. Horrible events like 9/11 and COVID-19 “are the times when great Americans come together to rise above the vanity of the day to learn, lead, and heal their communities and their country.” On its face, this sounds like a classic tale anyone could clap for. However, when we ignore the ambiguous and euphemistic language and consider what these stakeholders believe would be a “successful response” to pandemics, the story ends not in glorious overcoming, but in the deification of safety and the tyranny of health.
As the saying goes, never meet your heroes
The current list of “advisers” for the CCPG plainly contains many with serious conflicts of interest. For example, former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan is listed there (he is also a member of the Covid Collaborative’s National advisory Board). He now sits on the board of directors for Johnson & Johnson, a company that developed one of the few COVID-19 injections authorized for emergency use in the United States and that is currently developing an oral mRNA COVID-19 pill.
Alongside McClellan, whose company engages in research projects with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), sits Dr. Richard Danzig. Danzig, who sits on the board of directors for the Center for a New American Security, is a consultant to Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security, and trustee of the RAND Corporation. Dr. Julie Gerberding, the executive Vice President of Merck (retired in March 2022, after the time of writing), also made it to the table. There are many other notable advisers listed, but I will avoid elaborating on that further for now. If you would like to see the full list, you may do so here.
The kind of advisers chosen by Zelikow indicates that a “better response” to COVID-19 would look to them something like stricter enforcement of public health authority guidelines like social distancing, mandatory vaccines, faster therapeutic development, less drug regulation, lower clinical trial costs, and more state resources for pharmaceutical production and distribution. Admittedly, that is just an educated guess since it is never clarified on their end.
What we do know is that The Rockefeller Foundation provided Zelikow, by way of the University of Virginia, the vast majority of the funds needed to get the CCPG off the ground. Due to this, the foundation or its leaders may have had some influence over who was selected for cast of characters that comprise the CCPG’s list of advisers.
Dr. Rajiv Shah
The public myth-maker extraordinaire Philip Zelikow became involved with the COVID Collaborative in early 2021 while the CCPG was still in its fledgling stages. Former first deputy assistant to President George W. Bush and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, John Bridgeland, serves as the Collaborative’s CEO, but Zelikow remains a principle member of this group and presumably serves as a back channel to the CCPG. The Covid Collaborative works as the CCPG’s partner, but focuses its efforts on public health action and policy. The Rockefeller Foundation has long pursued objectives like the establishment of global digital IDs (see Commons Project) and mass vaccinations, which mesh well with the objectives of the Covid Collaborative. So, it may not come as a surprise to find the president of The Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Rajiv Shah, on the Collaborative’s list of National Advisory Board members.2
Dr. Shah is an incomprehensibly busy man. On top of his roles at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Covid Collaborative he occupies various positions at:
- The Trilateral Commission
- The Atlantic Council
- The ONE Global Leadership Circle
- The Council for Inclusive Capitalism
- The Global Food Exchange
- The Academy of the Arts & Sciences
- The Markle Workforce Initiative Advisory Board
- Omeros, a biotechnology company3
- The Adrienne Arscht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
- The World Affairs Council in Jacksonville and
- The International Growth Center
and is paid for speaking roles at:
- Aspen Ideas for the Aspen Institute
- The Milken Institute
- Path North
- USC’s Center of Philanthropy and Public Policy
- The World Bank, and
- The World Economic Forum.
Shah is also a trustee for the National Geographic Society and founded the private equity firm Latitude Capital which is centered on investment projects in Asia and Africa.4
Auctoritas
Prior to becoming president of The Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Shah served a seven month stint in 2009 as chief scientist5 for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Shortly after, he was nominated for and confirmed as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator. He held that position until 2015, during which time co-chaired the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review led by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and raised huge amounts of private capital funds for Obama’s Power Africa project.
Shah also directed millions of dollars in USAID funding toward a Gates Foundation project called The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi)6 and continues to do so today as President of The Rockefeller Foundation.7 He is on record as having a friendly relationship with Bill and Melinda Gates8 and worked for their foundation in various roles for eight years prior to his 2009 USDA appointment. There, he lead The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) project and, to this day, remains a member of the AGRA board.9 Outside of his board membership, Shah’s close relationship with the Gates Foundation and his involvement with AGRA did not end with his departure in 2009.10
As USAID Administrator, Dr. Shah was particularly focused on health innovations including “new vaccines” and minimizing the time between “the development of new health interventions and technologies to their introduction on the ground.”11 Dr. Shah also implemented the USAID public-private partnership program, the U.S. Global Development Lab to “connect [USAID] to the brightest minds and best new technologies that can achieve [USAID’s] objectives faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.”12 Partners at that time, given as examples, notably include Duke University and Google (see the installment on Dr. Robert Califf for the ties here).
The Doctrine of Rapid Dominance
Today, Shah is pioneering “impact investing” through a philanthropic foundation. Since 2017 he has overseen the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars in the form of grants. At the beginning of 2020 the grants shifted suddenly and almost entirely toward projects like “vaccine equity” and genomic (wastewater) surveillance. The stated purpose of each of the vaccine equity grants is to provide grassroots third-party groups with the funding to deliver advertisement-like messaging to low-income, urban, and BIPOC communities in their areas. The intended outcome of these messages is to convince that target audience to take the investigative mRNA COVID-19 shots.13 Through his position at The Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Shah is funding messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine marketing with an absurd monetary volume.14
Before diving into Shah’s influence with the Covid Collaborative, I would like to point out that he is also a commissioner of a similar organization, the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission.15 Here, we see trite globalist recommendations on strategies “to best suppress the epidemic” and to build “an inclusive, fair, and sustainable world.”16 That said, what is important about the Lancet’s commission is that it was organized17 much earlier, in June of 2020, and was charged with appointing a task force to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2. As its leader, Dr. Shah selected Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, to chair the task force. His appointment as chair was met with appall and an uprising of strong criticism and Daszak recused himself eight months later citing undisclosed conflicts of interest.18 The task force was ultimately disbanded because every member of the task force shared the same conflicts of interest, having either worked with Daszak directly or with EcoHealth Alliance.19
After the devolution of the Covid Origins task force, the Lancet’s Covid Commission has since pursued less risky objectives that are nearly identical to those proposed by the Covid Collaborative.20 As, of course, both organizations are funded in part by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
Now, Shah’s particular position and role at the Covid Collaborative is not stated, nor is it stated for most people sitting on the National Advisory Board. However, his influence over the Covid Collaborative’s stance and agenda is easy to see as his personal interests and friends continue to benefit tremendously from the Collaborative’s efforts.
On September 1st, 2021, the Covid Collaborative issued a call for a “Global Summit to End the COVID-19 Pandemic” which was to take place during the United Nations General Assembly later that month. In their letter (signed by Shah) to those attending the UN General Assembly, they argue that there is insufficient vaccine equity and that every country should get ready to “implement equitable vaccine programs at scale” by the end of 2021 to fulfill the Collaborative’s primary objective of “[vaccinating] 70 percent of the world’s population by mid-2022.”21 The call was heard by the White House and promptly acted upon by the President of the United States himself.
Just two weeks later, U.S. President Joe Biden was reported to be “[proposing] a target for 70% of the world’s population to be vaccinated within the next year at a global vaccines summit he intends to convene alongside the UN general assembly.”22 Oddly, there are no mentions of the Covid Collaborative or their call for this exact meeting and objective in any of the reports. This target was presented to public as President Biden’s idea, acting on ambitions set by himself in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and International Monetary Fund (IMF).23
The Global Summit to End COVID-19 convened the following week, and a commitment was made by President Biden towards vaccine equity and to buy “500 million doses of Pfizer vaccine that will all be shipped by this time next year, bringing the U.S. total commitment of donated vaccines to over 1.1 billion.”24 The White House press release notes that the President also “acknowledged […] U.S. financing to help strengthen manufacturing in South Africa and produce more than 500 million J&J doses in Africa for Africa by next year.” Global vaccine distribution and health related outreach to Africa run a straight, although silent, path back to the interests of Dr. Shah and his allies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the same White House press release, President Biden also made a distinct commitment to “support COVAX25 as the main mechanism for sharing WHO-authorized vaccines” and “more than $380 million in assistance for Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, to provide political risk insurance.” COVAX is facilitated and co-led by Gavi and is self-described as “the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator”26 with the aim to “accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.” With the costs and risks allocated solely to the American citizen, “impact investing” with taxpayer money results in a substantially high return on investment.
The WHO’s ACT Accelerator partnership, itself, is “the fastest, most coordinated, and successful global effort in history to develop tools to fight a disease” and in the list of partners you will, again, find Gavi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.27 This public-private partnership’s stated goal is to “speed up an end to the pandemic” which they claim will be accomplished by “supporting the development and equitable distribution of tests, treatments, and vaccines” for COVID-19.28 In essence, the ACT Accelerator partnership in conjunction with COVAX strives to do exactly what Dr. Shah aimed to do as USAID Administrator: To develop health innovations including (and primarily) “new vaccines” and minimizing the time between “the development of new health interventions and technologies to their introduction on the ground.”
Spectacular Displays of Force
[To] impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on … [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary’s perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels.
Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, Shock And Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance
(National Defense University, 1996), XXV. (my emphasis)
Perhaps, when Dr. Rajiv Shah was elected the President of The Rockefeller Foundation in 2017, he was just the right man for the job. However, it seems to be more than just the force of kismet that, at the start of a “once-in-a-century” pandemic, Shah would occupy the lead position of a multi-billion dollar philanthropic foundation. His interests, experience, and friends neatly align with those that might be sought after by powerful figures trying to expand medical tyranny, achieve a great reset, and usher in a fourth industrial revolution. This unelected and unrepresentative position has certainly allowed him to shape the public narrative about, as well as state and global responses to, COVID-19, and to direct inordinate amounts of money toward his friends and his interests.
The Biden Administration has acted upon the recommendations of the Covid Collaborative, vowing to vaccinate 70 percent of the world’s population by mid-2022, to funnel taxpayer money to projects that align with and accelerate that goal, and even to provide “political risk insurance” funding to Gavi. Upon seeing President Biden make this promise in front of the UN General Assembly, other world leaders must have been influenced take up the same aims with urgency. With The Rockefeller Foundation providing the public with vaccine propaganda, the Gates Foundation coffers have become engorged and Dr. Shah’s dream of seeing new vaccines developed in record time being delivered to a global audience has been realized.
Endnote
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Footnotes
1 “University of Virginia 2021.” The Rockefeller Foundation. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/university-of-virginia-2021-2/
2 This source has been deleted. No archive of the page was found, but Rajiv Shah’s participation in this project can be proved by Archive.Today:
“The Collaborative” Covid Collaborative. Accessed 3 April 2023 via Archive.Today https://archive.fo/CI8rS
“Rajiv Shah.” Covid Collaborative. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.covidcollaborative.us/rajiv-shah
3 Ibid.
“Dr. Rajiv J. Shah.” The Rockefeller Foundation. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
“Rajiv Shah.” World Bank Live. Accessed 2021-2022. https://live.worldbank.org/experts/rajiv-shah
“Rajiv J. Shah.” American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Last updated April 2023. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.amacad.org/person/rajiv-j-shah
“Rajiv Shah.” Council for Inclusive Capitalism. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.inclusivecapitalism.com/member/rajiv-shah/
“Rajiv Shah.” International Growth Centre. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.theigc.org/person/rajiv-shah/
“Omeros Corporation – Rajiv Shah, – Board Member.” Omeros. Accessed 2021-2022. https://investor.omeros.com/board-member/rajiv-shah
“Dr. Rajiv Shah.” Markle. Accessed 2021-2022 https://www.markle.org/about-markle/expert/dr-rajiv-shah
This source has been deleted, no archive found: https://milkeninstitute.org/events/gc18/speakers/30800
This source has been deleted, no archive found: https://www.onebillionresilient.org/team/dr-rajiv-j-shah
“Rajiv Shah, M.D.” World Affairs Council. Accessed 2021-2022 www.worldaffairscounciljax.org/about/speaker-portfolio/rajiv-shah-md/
“From Surges to Strategy: Putting a National COVID-19 Testing Plan in Place.” Aspen Institute. 7 August 2020. https://www.aspeninstitute.org/videos/from-surges-to-strategy-putting-a-national-covid-19-testing-plan-in-place/
“Annual Gathering.” PathNorth. 2018. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.pathnorth.com/annual-gathering
Global Food Exchange. Home Page. Accessed 2021-2022 http://www.globalfoodexchange.com/dr.-rajiv-shah.html
4 Latitude Capital. Home page. Accessed 2021-2022. https://latcap.com
“Rajiv Shah.” Paine Schwartz Partners. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.paineschwartz.com/team/rajiv-shah/
Ferguson, Jessica. “Dr. Rajiv Shah: Reimaging a Legacy of Investing in the Possible.” CSQ. 14 December 2008. https://csq.com/2018/12/dr-rajiv-shah-reimaging-a-legacy-of-investing-in-the-possible/#.Ya08By-B1lA
Quote:
“In 2015, Shah left USAID to launch Latitude Capital, a private equity firm focused on energy and infrastructure in developing countries. This pivoted him perfectly into his current undertaking: President of The Rockefeller Foundation and steward to its 105-year-old gold standard of “scientific philanthropy.” The Foundation has granted more than $18B in funding.”
5 Shah, Rajiv. Date unknown. United States Department of Agriculture. Accessed 2021-2022. https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/nifa_rollout_transcript_clean.pdf. Public comments.
Stokstad, Erik. “USDA Turns From Wunderkind to Polymath for Chief Scientist.” Science. 23 April 2010. https://www.science.org/content/article/usda-turns-wunderkind-polymath-chief-scientist
“Rajiv Shah.” the WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama. Archives, WhiteHouse.gov. Accessed 2021-2022. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/rajiv-shah
Quote:
“At USDA, he launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a new scientific institute that significantly elevates the status and funding of agricultural research.”
6 “USAID Rajiv Shah highlights vaccines as quality investment.” GAVI. 15 February 2011. https://www.gavi.org/news/media-room/usaid-rajiv-shah-highlights-vaccines-quality-investment
“Statement on Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator-Designate – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2009/11/Statement-on-Dr-Rajiv-Shah-USAID-AdministratorDesignate
Quote:
“The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah as the next administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrates a commitment to providing strong, evidence-based, effective U.S. foreign assistance. We have worked closely with Raj for several years and know he will bring the same commitment, intelligence and visionary management style to USAID.”
7 “Gavi Receives US$ 5 Million from The Rockefeller Foundation to Support Health Workers Facing Covid-19 Pandemic.” The Rockefeller Foundation, 1 June 2020. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/gavi-receives-us-5-million-from-the-rockefeller-foundation-to-support-health-workers-facing-covid-19-pandemic/ Press release.
Quote:
“The global pandemic is already redefining the delivery of health services, making the use of innovation and digital technologies even more critical,” said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. “We recognize Gavi’s efforts in strengthening health systems and making sure frontline health workers are prepared to face these new challenges. We are looking forward to working together and contribute to closing the health inequity gap.” […] “[About GAVI] After two decades of progress, Gavi is now focused on protecting the next generation and reaching the unvaccinated children still being left behind, employing innovative finance and the latest technology – from drones to biometrics – to save millions more lives, prevent outbreaks before they can spread and help countries on the road to self-sufficiency.”
“Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative 2019.” The Rockefeller Foundation. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/grant-global-alliance-for-vaccine-initiative-2019-2/
Note:
A grant to GAVI for over $5M “towards the costs of its efforts to develop a digitally competent and adaptive frontline workforce to benefit the health of children globally.”
8 Ferguson, Jessica. “Dr. Rajiv Shah: Reimaging a Legacy of Investing in the Possible.” CSQ. 14 December 2008. https://csq.com/2018/12/dr-rajiv-shah-reimaging-a-legacy-of-investing-in-the-possible/#.Ya08By-B1lA
Quote:
“When he was 28, Shah began working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—an active partnership he still relishes today—before taking on leadership roles in the Obama Administration as chief scientist for the USDA and head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). […] After working closely with Bill Gates, Shah says he learned ‘how to envision the kind of world we want to invent, and make it happen through a hyper-focused, results-oriented approach.'” (my emphasis)
9 The following two sources have been deleted: (https://agra.org/ourpeople/dr-rajiv-j-shah/ and https://agra.org/ar-2018/zt_team/dr-rajiv-j-shah/), but Shah’s work with respect to AGRA can be substantiated in other ways including the following:
“Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, MD, MSc” POLITICO. Accessed 4 April 2023. https://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM138_rs_backgrounder_2009-11-10.pdf
Frederick, Denver. “Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation, Joins Denver Frederick.” The Business of Giving. 20 January 2020. https://denver-frederick.com/2020/01/20/dr-rajiv-shah-president-of-the-rockefeller-foundation-joins-denver-frederick/
Rieff, David. “A Green Revolution for Africa?” The New York Times Magazine. 10 October 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12wwln-shah-t.html
“Rajiv Shah.” the WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama. Archives, WhiteHouse.gov. Accessed 2021-2022. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/rajiv-shah
Quote:
“Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Shah served for seven years with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where his positions included Director of Agricultural Development in the Global Development Program, and Director of Strategic Opportunities.”
10 Shah, Rajiv. “Remarks by Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Rajiv J. Shah “The Great Debate: Where is Africa’s Green Revolution Relative to its Vision?”” The African Green Revolution Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, 7 September 2018. Accessed through The Rockefeller Foundation. 8 September 2018. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/remarks-rockefeller-foundation-president-dr-rajiv-j-shah-great-debate-africas-green-revolution-relative-vision/
11 Mungcal, Ivy. “Rajiv Shah Outlines USAID’s New Global Health Focus on Innovation, Vaccines.” Devex. 15 February 2011. https://www.devex.com/news/rajiv-shah-outlines-usaid-s-new-global-health-focus-on-innovation-vaccines-72825
Quote:
“The agency also wants to use its commodity procurement systems to help deliver more of these technologies, particularly new vaccines, at more affordable prices, Shah said. […] Among the interventions USAID would invest in are vaccines. The agency plans to strengthen its vaccines team, support the development of new vaccines and promote public funding for the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization, Shah said.”
12 “Q and A with outgoing USAID Administrator Dr Rajiv Shah.” Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. Global Health Matters newsletter. March/April 2015. https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2015/Pages/rajiv-shah-usaid.aspx
Achenbach, Paris. “USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on Public-Private Partnerships and the Future of Aid.” NewSecurityBeat. 7 March 2014. https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2014/03/usaid-administrator-rajiv-shah-public-private-partnerships-future-aid/
Quote:
“This ‘new model of development,’ as Shah puts it, now composes 40 percent of USAID’s programming, and he said the hope is to increase that over time. ‘What that effectively means is that when there are disasters, instead of simply providing aid assistance, we’re also laying the groundwork for recovery and rehabilitation.’”
13 If visiting these grant pages, please make sure to note the use of the phrase “safe and effective.”
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/roots-community-health-center-2021/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/chicago-community-trust-2021-4/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/united-way-of-greater-newark-2021-4/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/houston-in-action-2021-3/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/justice-and-empowerment-initiatives-2021/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/city-of-houston-2021-2/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/core-community-organized-relief-effort-2021-5/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/national-domestic-workers-alliance-inc-2021-3/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/columbia-university-2021-2/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/global-citizen-2021-3/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/families-usa-foundation-inc-2021-4/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2021-8/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2021-14/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/faith-in-action-network-2021-5/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2021-12/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/chicago-community-trust-2021-2/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2021-11/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2021-10/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/johns-hopkins-university-2021-8/
14 Quote:
As the term “propaganda” typically relates to some political motive, I use it intentionally. I think it is past time that we accept health is a political playground. I don’t mean this in the way that abortion and “universal healthcare” are wedge issues, but in the way that politicians and health care officials talk and behave the same way and share the same revolving doors.
A neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, ran for president in the 2016 presidential primaries. Doctors Anthony Fauci and Rochelle Walensky are delivering nation-wide mandates at the behest of the Presidential Office. Former governors are leading the Covid Collaborative, with the aim of delivering information as pertains to the health of the nation to the President and his closest advisors. Former governmental officials are taking up leadership positions at medical companies and their boards of directors.
As it becomes clearer to the American public that the age of pandemics and vaccines is upon us, I believe they will also come to realize that “health,” meaning the institutions that deliver health products, services, and guidance, is now political in nature and has been for some time.
15 “Rajiv Shah.” The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Accessed 2021-2022. https://covid19commission.org/raj-shah
“Commissioners.” The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Accessed 2021-2022. https://covid19commission.org/commissioners
16 The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Home page. Accessed 2021-2022. https://covid19commission.org
Note:
All four “main themes”:
1. Recommendations on how to best suppress the epidemic.
2. Addressing the humanitarian crises arising from the pandemic.
3. Addressing the financial and economic crises resulting from the pandemic.
4. Rebuilding an inclusive, fair, and sustainable world.
17 The Lancet. Home page. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.thelancet.com
“Open Access.” The Lancet. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.thelancet.com/open-access
Note:
The Lancet is partially funded by The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Levine RE. Power in global health agenda-setting: the role of private funding Comment on “Knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Mar 4;4(5):315-7. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.51. PMID: 25905483; PMCID: PMC4417636. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417636/
Quote:
“The Lancet, while it has diversified funding, is also able to operate as it does in part because of support from the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and other philanthropic sources.”
18 These conflicts of interest have hence been disclosed:
Geraghty, Jim. “The Lancet Gives Up On COVID-19 Origins.” National Review. 27 September 2021. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-lancet-gives-up-on-covid-19-origins/
Cohen, John. “Fights over confidentiality pledge and conflicts of interest tore apart COVID-19 origin probe.” Science. 18 October 2021. https://www.science.org/content/article/fights-over-confidentiality-pledge-and-conflicts-interest-tore-apart-covid-19-origin-probe
Thacker P D. Covid-19: Lancet investigation into origin of pandemic shuts down over bias risk BMJ 2021; 375 :n2414 doi:10.1136/bmj.n2414. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414
Browne, Ed. “Peter Daszak, Who Sought U.S. Funds for Wuhan Lab and Aided Cover-up, Faces Calls to Quit.” Newsweek. 6 October 2021. https://www.newsweek.com/peter-daszak-u-s-funds-wuhan-institute-virology-aided-cover-faces-calls-quit-ecohealth-alliance-1636103
19 “Task Forces.” The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Accessed 2021-2022. https://covid19commission.org/task-forces
Note:
This task force remains listed on the commissions’ “Task Forces” page, though it is accompanied by the following note: “In the interest of ensuring the transparency and objectivity of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission report, the Task Force on the Origins, Early Control of the Pandemic, and One Health Solutions has been ended. The Commission’s work on these issues will be undertaken by the Commission Secretariat, in consultation with global experts, in advance of the final report.”
“Secretariat.” The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Accessed 2021-2022. https://covid19commission.org/secretariat
Note:
The secretariat is comprised of 6 individuals from two organizations: The Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The “global experts” these individuals are consulting with are not named.
20 “Enhancing Global Cooperation to End the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Statement of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. February 2021. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652ab722df11fcb2ba5d/t/60a3d43e58c2ed6bdee0d52b/1621349439346/COVID19Commission_Enhancing+Global+Cooperation.pdf
21 This source has been deleted. However, the following source substantiates the quotation:
“A Call for a Global Summit to End the COVID-19 Pandemic.” COVID Collaborative. 1 September 2021. https://www.covidcollaborative.us/initiatives/global-summit-to-end-covid-19
Quote:
“Therefore, we call on world leaders to convene a global summit during this year’s United Nations General Assembly and commit to actions to make 7 billion doses of high-quality vaccines available before the end of 2021 and an additional 7 billion doses by mid-2022; ensure that every country is ready to implement equitable vaccination programs at scale by the end of this year; and vaccinate 70 percent of the world’s population by mid-2022. People everywhere should also have equitable access to tests, therapies, and other proven interventions so lives can be saved using all COVID-19 tools.“
22 “Joe Biden to propose target of vaccinating 70% of world in a year.” The Guardian. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/joe-biden-propose-target-vaccinating-world-covid
23 Gay Stolberg, Sheryl. “Biden will call for 70 percent of the world to be vaccinated against Covid.” The New York Times. Last updated 28 October 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/13/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#biden-plans-to-call-for-70-percent-of-the-world-to-be-vaccinated-against-the-virus
Note:
Members of the Covid Collaborative are associated with these organizations. So, to be as charitable as possible, the reports and the President are not outrightly lying or hiding information. However, the parallels between the two are so exact that it is not unreasonable to say that the Covid Collaborative gave this to the President and allowed it to be named his own. It may not be unreasonable to say, too, that the Covid Collaborative has an interest in staying unnamed in this, or that the perception of this call and objective was agreed to be better received by the public if the Collaborative allowed the President to present it as his own. Deliberately or otherwise, the Covid Collaborative is certainly playing in the shadows.
24 “Global COVID-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better.” The White House, 24 September 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/24/global-covid-19-summit-ending-the-pandemic-and-building-back-better/. Press release.
25 “COVAX.” World Health Organization. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax
Quotes:
“No one is safe, until everyone is safe”
“COVAX is co-led by CEPI, Gavi and WHO, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF.”
26 “COVAX Facility.” GAVI. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility#what
27 “What is the ACT Accelerator.” World Health Organization. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/about
28 “Access to COVID-19 tools funding commitment tracker.” World Health Organization. 17 March 2023. Accessed 2021-2022. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/access-to-covid-19-tools-tracker
Note:
Of the tests, treatments and vaccines, the vaccine development and distribution budget received the highest monetary allocation at $16 billion dollars. The total budget reported was $38.1 billion dollars as of the report for September 2020-2021.
