Rick Bright, a scientist for the federal government, has filed a whistleblower complaint. NPR's Ailsa Change talks with Bright's attorney Debra Katz.
Rick Bright, a scientist for the federal government, has filed a whistleblower complaint after being transferred to a new position last month. He was serving as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, known as BARDA, when he was removed. In his complaint to the Office of Special Counsel, Bright says he raised concerns about the need to prepare for the coronavirus in January, but he encountered opposition from the Trump administration.
And Dr. Bright wants the American public to know that science should prevail here. If we band together to fight this horrible pandemic, we will get places. But it will not happen if the administration takes out science and puts instead...CHANG: ...Evidence do you have that Dr. Bright was removed directly because of objections he was making about hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine? These are treatments that President Trump had been pushing but that Dr. Bright had problems with.
And lastly, he clashed with Secretary Azar when he said at the very beginning of this pandemic that this is coming to America. This idea of containing this virus is not going to work, and we need to be ready. And he was removed from those meetings when he acted with a great deal of urgency...CHANG: Can we talk about Secretary Azar? This is the secretary of...CHANG: ...Health and Human Services.
KATZ: Yes. As we detailed in the complaint, Dr. Kadlec steered contracts to friends of his over the objections of scientists who were studying these same proposals, where - a panel of scientists would look at two competing drugs and say, Drug A is the better drug. This is what we should purchase for our national stockpile. Instead, Dr.
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