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Dr Rick Bright: "Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history ... we have the world's greatest scientists. Let us lead. Let us speak without fear of retribution ... we need a national testing strategy."
Bright on the federal government's coronavirus response: "I believe we could have done better. I believe there are critical steps that we did not take in time ... alarms were not responded to with action."
(Fox News just aired a lengthy interview with the White House press secretary instead of this testimony)
Rep @michaelcburgess (R) uses his questioning time to promote hydroxychloroquine
Bright testifies that he thinks we're still as much as 18 months away from a coronavirus vaccine
BRIGHT on why he was removed from his govt post: "[My] removal process was initiated b/c of a pushback that I gave when they asked me to put in place and expanded access protocol that would make chloroquine more freely available to Americans that were not under the supervision."
BRIGHT: The American health care system is being taxed to the limit. Our economy is spiraling downward and our population is being paralyzed by fear, stemming from a lack of a coordinated response and a dearth of accurate, clear information about the path forward."
Republicans keep using their questioning time to defend Trump by promoting hydroxychloroquine. It's beyond parody.
BRIGHT on his effort to sound an alarm about PPE shortages: "I pushed those forward to our leadership ... I pushed those warnings to our strategic national stockpile teams ... in each of those, I was met with indifference ... a number of excuses, but never any action."
. @RepLarryBucshon tries to blame Obama for mask shortages, overlooking that Trump was president for three years before coronavirus arrived in the US
"We're in deep shit" -- Bright talks about a moment from this winter when he realized the US government was unprepared for the coronavirus
Markwayne Mullin ( @RepMullin) grills Bright about the important issues -- his hypertension and whether he's health enough to work. He seems to get lost in his own web of conspiracy theories and ends his questioning period with some stammering.
