Ousted vaccine official alleges he was demoted for prioritizing ‘science and safety’

A former top vaccine official removed from his post last month alleged in a whistleblower complaint on Tuesday that he was reassigned to a less prestigious role because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency” and raised health concerns over a drug repeatedly pushed by President Trump and other administration officials as a possible cure for coronavirus.

Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, was removed from his post on April 20 after having served as BARDA director for nearly four years. He was reassigned to a narrower role at the National Institutes of Health that the Department of Health and Human Services touted as part of a “bold new plan” to defeat covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

Bright portrays himself in the 89-page complaint as one of the administration’s health officials trying to sound the alarm about the virus as early as January. He said he called for the rapid development of treatments and vaccines, as well as the stockpiling of additional N95 masks and ventilators, at a time when HHS political leadership, including Secretary Alex Azar, appeared to him to be underestimating the threat.

He also notes that he clashed with his boss, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS Robert Kadlec, for at least two years, according to the complaint. Bright alleged that Kadlec and others pressured him to buy drugs and medical products for the nation’s stockpile of emergency medical equipment from companies that were linked politically to the administration and that he resisted such efforts.

On a call with reporters on Tuesday, Bright’s lawyers, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, said Bright came under pressure from Kadlec to award contracts “based on political connections and cronyism,” and that he was met with indifference from top HHS officials when he tried to sound the alarm about coronavirus in January.

“Dr. Bright’s removal from BARDA was retaliation, plain and simple,” Katz said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...wer-complaint/

All hail the great leader, 70k dead and counting, but some are cashing in.

Is this another Colonel Vindmam thread?

Is this another Colonel Vindmam thread? Originally Posted by bambino

Nope, Whistleblower Rick Bright thread.

The corruption runs deep in the great leaders court, lots more coming

Before pandemic, Trump’s stockpile chief put focus on biodefense. An old client benefited.

After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump’s top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine. His office ultimately made a deal to buy up to $2.8 billion of the vaccine from a company that once paid Kadlec as a consultant, a connection he did not disclose on a Senate questionnaire when he was nominated.

Under the agreement struck last year with Emergent BioSolutions, Kadlec’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services is paying more than double the price per dose it had previously paid for the drug. Because Emergent is the only licensed maker of the vaccine, Kadlec’s office arrived at the price through negotiations with the company rather than through bidding.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...bdb_story.html

j66 is just repostinig wacomPost - again.

Same slanted Lies as always.

get a life and accept reality - j66.

the china news network and LSM are losing their luster for Americans - who tend to think for themselves rather than swallow the DPST narrative propaganda U are pushing.



Get some professional Help. Life can be much better - alternatively - move to Venezuela and get a real education in Socialism!

O great professor of internet psychology, you’re lucky I’m not paying for your insights because I’d be suing your ass for malpractice.

Your dream is over ,welcome to the nightmare.

70k dead and counting and 20% unemployment by June 1st.

Is this another Colonel Vindmam thread? Originally Posted by bambino

no its a I'm a strange little man thread by jaxass the strange little man

no its a I'm a strange little man thread by jaxass the strange little man Originally Posted by Hotrod511

Where you been tuffy... Thought for sure you’d be harping in on the Roosevelt scandal, let me guess....laying out a traffic fine.

Lucky you’re out just in time for a new Whistleblower complaint.

Is this another Colonel Vindmam thread? Originally Posted by bambino

worse. it's another jax thread.


BAHHAAAAA

j66- Thank U - U continue to show your lack of civility with your name-calling and scatology!
get some professional Help - before it is too late.

Hatred is self - destructive!

Yeah, for some idiots think that calling someone a whistle blower gives them credibility.

Perhaps someone needs to shove a smooth bore nozzle up Jax's ass? ..... you know to put his mind back on firefighting so he will stop these useless threads of totally worthless information .....

worse. it's another jax thread.


BAHHAAAAA Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

and i thought jax was a beer brand.

j66 is just repostinig wacomPost - again.

Same slanted Lies as always.

get a life and accept reality - j66.

the china news network and LSM are losing their luster for Americans - who tend to think for themselves rather than swallow the DPST narrative propaganda U are pushing.



Get some professional Help. Life can be much better - alternatively - move to Venezuela and get a real education in Socialism! Originally Posted by oeb11

Somebody’s ask oebsy which slanted lies are in this story.

Then asks him why jaxson needs to get a life when oebsy lives on this site all days long.

Not trying to be rude, here, but I wonder why it must be a one ways street in here.

The brokens record keeps skipping. Time to go digital, eh?

Somebody’s ask oebsy which slanted lies are in this story.

Then asks him why jaxson needs to get a life when oebsy lives on this site all days long.

Not trying to be rude, here, but I wonder why it must be a one ways street in here.

The brokens record keeps skipping. Time to go digital, eh? Originally Posted by HoeHummer

not trying to be rude????? that's a good one...
hoesy is rude without even trying....