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NEW!144sharesCLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Trump administration’s attempt to silence whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright has been about as brilliantly effective as their preparations to fight the Coronavirus pandemic.Wednesday, Dr. Bright testified before a House Committee for nearly 4 hours about why he was demoted as head of a Department of Health and Human Services agency after he called for proper vetting of the Trump-touted drug Hydroxychloroquine and repeatedly warned of supply shortages needed to prevent deaths as the Coronavirus hit the nation.The week of April 20, Dr. Bright was removed as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARA), and demoted to lesser position at the National Institutes of Health. BARA’s duties included developing vaccines. Dr. Bright’s ignored warnings and ouster prompted him to formally file a whistleblower complaint.At the time of his demotion, The New York Times reported Dr. Bright said he had pressed for rigorous vetting of the anti-malaria drug Trump was hyping but the administration instead put “politics and cronyism ahead of science.” In practice, Hydroxychloroquine has in fact been disproven as a fix or even partial remedy for the Cororavirus.Dr. Bright testified before the House that he had also been persistently warning about dire supply shortages as Covid-19 was spreading to the U.S., warnings that fell on deaf ears in the administration." I was met with indifference, saying they were either too busy, they didn’t have a plan, they didn’t know who was responsible for procuring those. A number of excuses, but never any action."“Lives were endangered, and I believe lives were lost. Not only that, we were forced to procure the supplies from other countries without the right quality standards.”Dr. Bright said there is still no “master, coordinated plan” and continued to give ominous warnings Wednesday about what that ongoing poor planning could bring.“Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.”In a best case scenario, Dr. Bright said a vaccine could be developed in 12 to 18 months, but the same poor planning that hampered delivery of protection supplies could delay the distribution of any vaccine.President Trump responded with a dark rebuke on twitter and on his way to tour a medical supply distribution center in Pennsylvania.“I don’t know him, I never met him, I don’t want to meet him, but I watched him and he looks like an angry disgruntled employee who frankly according to some people didn’t do a very good job," Trump told the press.Dr. Bright had begun working at BARA in 2008. He was named its director in 2016. Prior to joining BARA he worked at the Centers for Disease Control starting in 1998. He left government service off and on to work in related areas in the private sector. He had always been a respected scientist proving to be nonpartisan having worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations.Trump: Would be fewer cases without “overrated" testing.As Trump toured the Owens &amp; Minor mask distribution center in Allentown, he and his Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, were the only ones who were seen not wearing masks. Equally idiotic were Trump’s remarks that testing was “overrated" and there would be few reported cases without it, which would be better in his mind.“We have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.” Duh Donald.“So we have the best testing in the world. It could be the testing’s. frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated."While Trump also repeated his false claim that America leads the world in testing, only about 3% of the American population has been tested so far.If the Coronavirus had been a whistleblower instead of a pandemic, Trump would have quickly gotten rid of it by now and everyone would be mask free like him.The U.S. government needs more Dr. Fauci, more Dr. Bright, and no more President Donald Not Too Bright.Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

NEW!144sharesCLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Trump administration’s attempt to silence whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright has been about as brilliantly effective as their preparations to fight the Coronavirus pandemic.Wednesday, Dr. Bright testified before a House Committee for nearly 4 hours about why he was demoted as head of a Department of Health and Human Services agency after he called for proper vetting of the Trump-touted drug Hydroxychloroquine and repeatedly warned of supply shortages needed to prevent deaths as the Coronavirus hit the nation.The week of April 20, Dr. Bright was removed as head...

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