news: 'Ousted' US vaccine expert Rick Bright to file a whistleblower complaint
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 theus agency trying to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus.
Dr Rick Bright led the
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President Trump said he had "never heard" of Dr Bright.
The president has previously mentioned the use of hydroxychloroquine and thus the related drug chloroquine as a possible "game changer" for Covid-19. However, many experts have cautioned that hydroxychloroquine could be ineffective, or even dangerous.
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He resisted efforts to provide unfettered access to potentially dangerous drugs, including chloroquine, but which is untested and possibly deadly a handout from the doctor's lawyers said.
But Politico reports that in internal emails Dr Bright praised the health department's recent acquisition of tens of the many doses of those drugs.
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He certainly didn't make that clear from his email - quite the opposite ," an unnamed official told Politico.
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Under US law, a whistleblower complaint are often filed if a private believes their employer retaliated against them for exercising their rights as an employee.
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In a surprise announcement on Tuesday, the US health department said Dr Bright had been removed as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (Barda) and reassigned to a special role at the National Institutes of Health.
The following day, Dr. Bright released a handout saying that he was replaced because he resisted "misguided directives" to plug hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as treatments for Covid-19.
To think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Dr. Bright said.
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Asked about the row during the daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, President Trump responded: "I've never heard of him."
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On Dr. Bright's claim that he was driven out, Mr. Trump
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