JUST IN: Lawyers for Dr. Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint earlier this week, say a federal watchdog has determined sufficient evidence exists that his removal as head of an office that oversees vaccine production was retaliation.
Bright said last month he would be filing a whistleblower complaint"detailing the retaliatory treatment to which he was subjected to by political leadership at HHS after raising appropriate science-based concerns about White House pressure on treatment and vaccines related to the COVID-19 pandemic."
Rick Bright, deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response for Health and Human Services , speaks during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2018.But Bright alleges he had been objecting to what he described as"cronyism" in HHS leadership for years.
Bright is requesting to be returned to his position as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, as well as"a full investigation." He was removed from his job last month in charge of the group, known as BARDA, which recently received more than $3 billion in federal funds to help ramp up production capacity so that any discovery of a coronavirus vaccine can be quickly manufacture and distributed to hundreds of millions of Americans.
Though the plan did not go through, Bright alleges the"Administration nevertheless continued to push for expanded, unsupervised access to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine."
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