On Tuesday, Bright resigned from the position he was transferred to at the National Institutes of Health on the purpose that he was 'sidelined from doing any further work to combat this deadly virus,' according to a statement from his attorneys.
Rick Bright, a whistleblower and the former director of a federal program working with industry and academia to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, alleged the Trump administration"silenced" scientists and"resisted" aggressive measures early on in the pandemic to mitigate the spread of the virus during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper two days after his resignation from the National Institutes of Health, and he criticized one of the few concrete actions the White House points...
On Tuesday, Bright resigned from the position he was transferred to at the National Institutes of Health on the purpose that he was"sidelined from doing any further work to combat this deadly virus," according to a statement from his attorneys. The travel ban with China instituted in February, which President Trump frequently touts and was cited by Vice President Mike Pence during his debate Wednesday night, was"insufficient," Bright said, because, beyond the fact that the disease already was beyond containment,"We weren't doing anything else to plan for mitigation."
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