Whistleblower who alleged White House virus failures resigns
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) A high-ranking government whistleblower who alleges the Trump administration fumbled its coronavirus response resigned Tuesday, saying he has been forced out.
Lawyers for Dr. Rick Bright said he was sidelined at the National Institutes of Health, where he had been transferred this spring after being ousted as head of a biodefense agency.
Attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks said NIH superiors ignored a national coronavirus testing strategy that Bright developed because he had become politically toxic within the Trump administration.
NIH leadership declined to support Dr. Brights recommendations because of political considerations, plain and simple, the lawyers said. This was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. He can no longer countenance working for an administration that puts politics over science to the great detriment of the American people.
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still_one
(92,110 posts)by trump?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)onetexan
(13,033 posts)him on board again. We need real scientists, not people who don't bend truth because of political pressure.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Politicize everything, drive out the good, control all forms of communucation, etc.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Forced OUT.??,
How does he get "FORCED OUT?"..why, who,...when..etc.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)=================
Bright is an Ph.D. immunologist who formerly headed the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, an HHS agency that works to prepare the nation for such threats as a pandemic or a bioterrorism attack. That agency is now playing a central role in the campaign to deliver a coronavirus vaccine. Bright's expertise is in vaccine development.
Bright went public with his complaint in May, alleging he had been summarily removed as agency head because he resisted pressure to flood the New York area with hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that President Donald Trump was touting as a treatment for COVID-19
At the time, Trump dismissed Bright's allegations as complaints from a disgruntled employee."
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Bright is an Ph.D. immunologist who formerly headed the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, an HHS agency that works to prepare the nation for such threats as a pandemic or a bioterrorism attack
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)a position of authority in a prison holding Mr. Trump or one of his criminal minions.