Top Vaccine Official Removed Over Hydroxychloroquine Vetting

[Gardening Grandma]

(Dr Bright has a Ph.D. in immunology and molecular pathogenesis from Emory University)

The official who led the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine said on Wednesday that he was removed from his post after he pressed for rigorous vetting of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug embraced by President Trump as a coronavirus treatment, and that the administration had put “politics and cronyism ahead of science.”

Rick Bright was abruptly dismissed this week as the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, and removed as the deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response. He was given a narrower job at the National Institutes of Health.

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[ken a.k.a OMK]

Trump continues to drain the swamp of qualified experts who don't agree with his lies.    It is going to take a long time to MAGA after getting rid of this self-centered Narcissist.  

[deminmaine]

MAGA!  

[happyhoix]

If you’re not slavishly loyal to trump, your talent, education and experience don’t matter.

If you’re slavishly loyal to trump, your talent, education and experience still don’t matter.

Which explains how Kushner got tasked with fixing the Middle East problem.

[Tiny]

Is our government going for the dystopian future where anyone who doesn't have the money to buy actual medical care/medicine has to buy whatever "medicine" the corporations are promoting - even if it doesn't work and costs the "have not" population an exhorbitant amount?

Of course the wealthy will have their own concierge care and actual medicine treatments that work...

Cause that's kind of what it feels like... lets sell and profit from snake oil for the masses, but we'll make sure our own families have access to actual medical care/drugs.

[thyme4change]

Brawdo has what plants crave!