WASHINGTON, May 6 — The ousted director of a US agency responsible for developing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic filed a whistleblower’s complaint yesterday accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of retaliating when he raised concerns. Rick Bright says in the complaint...
Wednesday, 06 May 2020 08:59 AM MYT
Rick Bright says in the complaint filed with a government watchdog that he warned about the virus in January and was met with hostility from Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and other high-ranking officials in the agency. Bright’s lawyers argue that his removal as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of HHS, violated a federal law protecting government whistleblowers.
Bright will testify before a US House of Representatives panel on May 14, a spokeswoman for Bright said on Tuesday. Bright said in a statement last month that he was demoted and reassigned to another position in part because he resisted efforts to push hydroxychloroquine and the related chloroquine as cures for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.
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