SCOOP - Dr. Rick Bright says in statement he was pushed out of BARDA for a narrower, more limited role at NIH for wanting to use science to test treatments for COVID19, specifically the administration push to get chloroquines in wide use https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-live-coverage.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/2...

“I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, ..." 1/

"and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit,” Bright said. In statement, he said, "I am speaking out because to combat this deadly virus, science – not politics or cronyism – has to lead the way."