Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation

Kind of alarming. I don't like the idea of this administration wasting money on unsafe "solutions" to the problem, and it's very worrying when another official is canned for trying to do the right thing.

Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation

(CNN)The director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine says he was abruptly dismissed from his post in part because he resisted efforts to widen the availability of a coronavirus treatment pushed by President Donald Trump.

Dr. Rick Bright had led BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, since 2016 until Tuesday, when was reassigned to a narrower position. He also announced he will file a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general.

"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, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit," Bright said in a lengthy statement issued Wednesday. "I am speaking out because to combat this deadly virus, science -- not politics or cronyism -- has to lead the way."

... https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/rick-bright-barda-trump-coronavirus/index.html

 

Horrible development.

Now he has filed a whistleblower complaint.

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/22/health-offical-whistleblower-complaint.html

 

A disgruntled demoted employee, via CNN, it must be true!