Zachary Fryer-BiggsVerified account

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National Security Reporter for — Past: , , — Encrypted Email NatSec@Protonmail.com

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    5 hours ago

    Remember that secret government stockpile of ventilators? We now know exactly how many are in there. (Hint: it's not enough.) New from & & me:

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    8 hours ago

    The government’s secret ventilator stockpile is nowhere near enough to fight the coronavirus via

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    8 hours ago

    The government has a secret ventilator stockpile. But it only has 16,600 –– nowhere near the number needed to help people suffering from coronavirus.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Trump administration officials have been a bit evasive about how many ventilators are in the Strategic National Stockpile. We got the number. with &

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    Mar 23

    *Taps mic* We're excited to announce that our series is the 2020 winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting! 🎉

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  6. Mar 23

    Congrats to my colleagues who worked on the investigation and just won the Goldsmith!

    🥁Drumroll please.... 🥁 Announcing the winner of the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting!
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  7. Mar 23

    My small contribution to includes this shot from our little catahoula from a couple of years ago.

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  8. Mar 23

    "I was floored, surprised and angry...because I trusted that equipment. That equipment was my lifeline." ⁠— An estimated 560 workers at Hanford were given respirator gear that may have leaked, according to documents obtained by The Seattle Times. Great piece by

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    Mar 22

    My wife, who’s a copy editor, tells me that to encourage distancing, the MLA has gone back to two spaces after a period.

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    5 Apr 2018

    If I hear one more person say something like “Posse Comitatus is what makes us a democracy” I’m going to start throwing things. That is so wrong it’s backward. That law was - and was meant to be - the main facilitator of Jim Crow. Thread. 1/

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    Mar 18

    The military will be an important resource for containing COVID-19. The DoD is our largest govt department. Few people know it better than reporters, and most of them were just indefinitely furloughed. This is terrible.

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    Mar 18

    I'm in awe of the pundits who switch with ease between being Middle East, US, UK and, now, virus experts. How do you do it, you're so amazing.

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  13. Mar 18

    Seeing some former Military Times colleagues getting furloughed. I'm pulling for all of you, hopefully they don't try to make you work unpaid (during 3 of 4 furloughs during the 3+ years I was in that newsroom that happened). You each can claim a drink on me when this is all over

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    Mar 18

    Remember the USNS Comfort is in Norfolk for repairs, only 1000 hospital bunks onboard, can't be used for COVID-19, not set up for infectious diseases, won't be in NY before mid April, according to US officials.

    WOW. Cuomo announces that Trump is sending the USNS Comfort "hospital ship," with a total patient capacity of 1,000, to help New York.
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    Mar 18

    US Navy:"Both ships are currently working to complete scheduled maintenance and identify necessary medical staffing to deploy as soon as possible.The Comfort and Mercy will not deploy to treat COVID patients, but will be made available to assist with treatment of other patients."

    As notes, the operational readiness of the naval hospital ships is not immediate. The USNS Comfort is in maintenance on the East Coast with no medical personnel currently on board. The USNS Mercy is in port on the West Coast with very few medical personnel on board.
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    Mar 17

    I forget what my face feels like

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    Mar 17

    Like I’m stilll blown that the one on the right is a bench after being power washed 🤢

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    Mar 17

    I am pitching a bunch of editors right now but if you need a reporter to write about corona, culture, defense, literally anything, give me an assignment! Trying to make that 🍞!

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    Mar 13

    We at have reported on filthy, unsafe conditions in immigration lockup. Pressure is on to release immigrant detainees given threats of coronovirus spreading. Remember, ICE detainees aren't serving sentences.

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    Mar 13

    For the I wrote about the history and chemistry of the wondrous substance we call soap, how it defeats certain viruses and bacteria on the molecular level, and why it has advantages over sanitizer

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