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Today Dr. Rick Bright, chief vaccine expert for the Health & Human Services Dept. is prepared to tell Congress his advocacy of science and safety not only went ignored by the Trump admin but prompted retaliation with dangerous consequences.
Live-tweet starts @ 10AM ET.
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Live-tweet starts @ 10AM ET.
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While I live-tweet Dr. Bright's testimony before Congress for @CourthouseNews, a stream will be available here: and here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?471986-1/dr-rick-bright-testifies-house-energy-commerce-panel
It has been less than 30 days since Bright was removed from the director role at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, an HHS offshoot funding companies to build out diagnostics and vaccines. He was abruptly transferred to a more modest role at NIH
In his complaint w/OSC, Bright alleged Bob Charrow, US Health & Human Srvcs general counsel, gave him a directive to set protocols expanding access to chloroquine well past what the FDA authorized for emergency use to treat Covid-19.
Via @KlasfeldReports: https://www.courthousenews.com/fired-head-of-virus-vaccine-effort-accuses-white-house-of-retaliation/
Via @KlasfeldReports: https://www.courthousenews.com/fired-head-of-virus-vaccine-effort-accuses-white-house-of-retaliation/
Bright says he resisted broadly calls to 'flood' NY & NJ w/ uninspected chloroquine & hydroxychloroquine from Pakistan and India even as "the administration promoted it as a panacea"
You can read Dr. Bright's whistleblower complaint here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6890059-Rick-Bright-Redacted-OSC-Complaint.html
@CourthouseNews
You can read Dr. Bright's whistleblower complaint here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6890059-Rick-Bright-Redacted-OSC-Complaint.html
@CourthouseNews
