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- Now, Bright has submitted his resignation to the National Institutes of Health effective immediately and has filed an updated complaint with the Office of Special Counsel alleging constructive discharge based on the failure of NIH leadership to assign him meaningful work, according to Bright's lawyers.
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Dr. Rick Bright, a top government virologist who was working on combating COVID-19, plans to tell lawmakers Thursday that he was "involuntarily transferred to a more limited and less impactful...
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Dr. Rick Bright says he's trained his entire life to recognize outbreaks and viruses. But when he sounded the alarm about the impending coronavirus pandemic,...
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Watch ousted health official Dr. Rick Bright's testimony before a House panel about a whistleblower complaint he filed. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuters...
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May 18, 2020 · Rick Bright knows he won't be BARDA's director again, but he says he will report to his new position at the NIH by the end of May, and hopes to continue to speak out about the coronavirus...
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- Lives Were Lost as A Result of Government Delay, Bright Says
- U.S. Has No ‘Master Plan’ For Virus Response
- U.S. Needs A Coronavirus Vaccine Strategy, Or Risks Catastrophe
- Supply Shortages Will Worsen Infection Disparities For Vulnerable Communities
The U.S. missed “critical steps” to prepare for the pandemic earlier, Bright told the members of Congress. Throughout his testimony, Bright detailed multiple attempts he and other colleagues made to raise concerns with multiple officials about the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, he said, his requests for resourcesin January were m...
Bright expressed concerns to lawmakers about what he feels is a lack of leadership and unified action when it comes to the pandemic. “We don’t have a single point of leadership right now for this virus response, and we don’t have a master plan for this response,” Bright said. He added that scientists need to be empowered to tell the American public...
Among the most pressing concerns Bright expressed in his testimony was the country’s preparedness to mass produce and distribute a coronavirus vaccine to all Americans. In his response to Rep. Ann Kuster, D-N.H., he said it would be “catastrophic” if everyone does not have access to a vaccine. “The decisions have not been made yet [on] who to vacci...
Specific data on coronavirus infection rates remains incomplete, but black and Latino communities have been particularly hard hit. In Chicago, for example, black people make up about 30 percent of the city’s population, but accounted for about 70 percentof its coronavirus deaths in early April. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
May 14, 2020 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Whistleblower Rick Bright warned on Thursday that the U.S. lacks a plan to produce and fairly distribute a coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available. The nation could face...
Apr 23, 2020 · A vaccine expert who says he lost his job because he disagreed with Donald Trump's claims about treatments for Covid-19 is to file a whistleblower complaint, his lawyers say. Dr Rick Bright led...
