Whistleblower alleges Trump administration ignored dire COVID warnings
The complaint from Dr. Rick Bright, who led the government’s efforts to find a vaccine for the coronavirus before being reassigned to a position at the National Institutes of Health, details what he describes as a staggering degree of inaction from administration officials bracing for a historic pandemic.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Bright alleges, was similarly slow to act, convinced that the U.S. could keep the virus from spreading domestically. At one point, Bright says, a top government official accused him of creating a “shitstorm” by asking for more funds for BARDA in front of Azar. That weekend Navarro and Bright drafted a memo for the coronavirus task force urging it to direct HHS to take steps to halt the export of N95 masks from the U.S., secure existing doses of a potential therapeutic, Remdesivir, and to fund a “Manhattan Project” for vaccine development, according to the complaint. That project eventually became what’s been dubbed “Operation Warped Speed.”
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