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HHS spokesman on decision to order hospitals to bypass CDC and send patient info to a new gov database is Michael Caputo, a protege of Roger Stone & former Manafort aide, Caputo previously advised Russian president Yeltsin and did PR for Gazprom subsidiary https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/KzvXbC3Inl
Michael Caputo became HHS spokesman in April 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and is a spokesman now on decision to order hospitals to stop sending data to the CDC and to send through a centralized system run by the company TeleTracking https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1250566263388209154?s=20
TeleTracking, based in Pittsburgh PA which will manage the new system to track hospital data, is headed and majority owned by Michael Zamagias, who is also CEO of Zamagias Properties Inc, a real estate co established in 1985
https://www.teletracking.com/
https://zamagias.com/healthcare/
https://www.teletracking.com/
https://zamagias.com/healthcare/
TeleTracking has a UK subsidiary TeleTracking International, which in the most recent financials shows profit after tax of £204,386 in 2018 and £133,432 in 2017
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05890147
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05890147
TeleTracking had multiple government contracts dating back to 2004 with the Veteran Affairs Dept with all contract obligations under $100,000, until April 2020 contract for $10,200,000 with the Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=Teletracking&s=FPDS.GOV&templateName=1.5.1&indexName=awardfull&x=0&y=0&sortBy=SIGNED_DATE&desc=Y
https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=Teletracking&s=FPDS.GOV&templateName=1.5.1&indexName=awardfull&x=0&y=0&sortBy=SIGNED_DATE&desc=Y
In June 2020 Sen Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee - wrote a letter demanding answers regarding non-competitive, multimillion dollar contract to TeleTracking for duplicative health data system https://washingtonstatewire.com/murray-demands-answers-regarding-non-competitive-multimillion-dollar-contract-for-duplicative-health-data-system/
In May 2020 Dr Robert Kadlec who heads HHS Office of Asst Secretary for Preparedness & Response which contracted with TeleTracking for $10.2mil was the focus of a whistleblower complaint about schemes to funnel contracts to politically connected companies https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/05/850960344/rick-bright-former-top-vaccine-scientist-files-whistleblower-complaint
The whistleblower complaint filed by Dr Rick Bright, an expert in immunology, therapeutic intervention, vaccine, and diagnostic development and pandemic preparedness - who was ousted in May & reported into Robert Kadlec, mentioned in complaint 256 times
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6882560-Rick-Bright-Whistleblower-Complaint
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6882560-Rick-Bright-Whistleblower-Complaint
Hospital data sent through the system managed by TeleTracking is integrated with a database called HHS Protect Now which Peter Thiel's company Palantir helped build https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1283126341441855490?s=20
Here's April 2020 $7,500,000 contract for Palantir with Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA) for "Palantir HHS Protect Platform Services"
A search on "HHS Protect" shows one result, so it's not clear any other vendors worked on this
https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull&templateName=1.5.1&s=FPDS.GOV&q=HHS+protect&x=25&y=6
A search on "HHS Protect" shows one result, so it's not clear any other vendors worked on this
https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull&templateName=1.5.1&s=FPDS.GOV&q=HHS+protect&x=25&y=6
