Ousted vaccine director says pandemic warnings were ignored

Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint Tuesday alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favored by President Donald Trump led to his removal.

Bright said in the complaint he raised urgent concerns about shortages of critical supplies, including masks, to his superiors in the Trump administration but was met with skepticism and surprise.
While Bright said some officials shared his concerns — including top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro — he describes an overall lack of action at the top of the administration even as the virus was spreading outside of China.
Bright had led the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority since 2016 when he was reassigned last month to a narrower position at the National Institutes of Health.

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    1. @Seaside Mom pretty old, but I suffered a traumatic brain injury at age 15. And haven’t been quite the same since. I enjoy sophomoric, juvenile and troll humor, but only ironically.

  1. Of course the warnings were ignored. Facts don’t jive with this admin’s false reality.

    1. @Cobone Trump has no respect! When a man can say grab her by the 🐱 that is a insult to every mother, daughter,sister and woman in the world. That is why I never supported Trump from day one. Woman are important and are not a hole and a heartbeat like Trump wishes. So you have no morals values 🙄🤔😬😈.

    2. The biggest false reality is that the U.S. is performing so badly, particularly in comparison to other first world countries, but when you’re led around like sheep, instead of looking at the data, then I can’t help you.

  2. anyone notice Trump visited factory he has stock in, but he criticizes 3M in which he doesn’t have stock.

    1. Ya a company that normally makes engines. And suck up Martha McSally went to Arizona with him. 3M can make millions of masks! I know people who work there.

    2. @Feline Faye Feline, you know people that work there? But do you know Jesus? He maybe Coming Soon n Very Soon, are you ready to meet Jesus face to face, as the Only alternative is satan/lake of fire/Hell for Eternity?

    1. YES , WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? IS TRUMP SUPPOSE TO BABYSIT EVERY LEFTIE DEMOCRATIC CITY IN USA ? .DUH . LEFTIE SANCTUARY CITIES ARE A PERFECT SANCTUARY FOR ALIEN VIRUSES TODAY — YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT , SO NOW DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES AND LIVE IN BREEDING GROUNDS FOR EPIDEMIES . OPEN BORDERS LOOK LIKE TOTAL IDIOCY TODAY ,BUT LEFTIES CRIED FOR OOOOOPEN BORDERS LOL .

    2. @Unknown Driller Except tens of thousands of people are dead. And going to go into the hundred of thousands within a month from now.

  3. More evidence indicating Trump totally mishandled the response to this pandemic, which has cost American lives. The number of cases is still rising yet Pence just announced they’re about to start disbanding the coronavirus taskforce.

    1. This is why he is shutting down the task force. Because he knows that the heat is on. It’s going to be a sad day if this thing runs like they are saying it’s going to run. And if it runs right they need to put Trump in jail for murder

    2. @some body he never stopped all flights from China. The flights still continue to this very day. There have been over 257 flights from China to America after the ban and over 40,000 passengers have come into America since then. Consider yourself schooled!

    3. @NPC Non Binary Demigender Pansexual Two Spirit that’s cool you can bring it up at the next clan meeting. You Trumpers can get those sheets extra white with the bleach you are stockpiling,! 😂

    1. Colin Faust YOU DONT HAV3 FRIENDS COMRADE …. ONLY GET PAID IN RUSSIAN BAGELS TO TROLL FOR TRUMPS DEAD STUPID BASE

    2. Londa1027 a Fake Account REPUBLIKKKAN P. O . S…… TROLL CRAWLING UP TRUMPS BLEACHED BUTTHOLE

  4. I will always support Whistleblower’s and hope more come forward to let America know just how much trouble we’re in. Maybe they will find the courage after this Doctor made a statement loud and clear for all of us to hear. Well done Sir👍 Ignore the $hit storm headed your way a majority of America is on your side.💜

    1. @Bryan McNair ….. Cite your sources on those thousands of doctors and scientists please.

      As for Tara ….. Some believe her, some don’t. She seems to have left out some very pertinent details in the first several renditions of her story. So far, they can’t find a formal complaint she might have filed. I wish women felt they could come out with their complaints immediately after any such occurrence. Men too, for that matter.

    2. @maremacd …. Yet at the rate of almost the last 4 years, the Dems could have put Tinkerbell up as their nominee and we’d be getting a stronger candidate than who’s squatting in our White House now!

    1. YES , WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? IS TRUMP SUPPOSE TO BABYSIT EVERY LEFTIE DEMOCRATIC CITY IN USA ? .DUH . LEFTIE SANCTUARY CITIES ARE A PERFECT SANCTUARY FOR ALIEN VIRUSES TODAY — YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT , SO NOW DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES AND LIVE IN BREEDING GROUNDS FOR EPIDEMIES . OPEN BORDERS LOOK LIKE TOTAL IDIOCY TODAY ,BUT LEFTIES CRIED FOR OOOOOPEN BORDERS LOL .

    1. THIS MESSAGE IS TO RETROGRADE : TRUMP HAS PROOVEN TO ALL OF US : RISING VALUE OF US DOLLAR , LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATE , RALLYING STOCK MARKET , RETURNING INDUSTRY ,ENERGY SECURITY – LOW STABLE PRICE OF GASOLINE IN LAST 3 YEARS ,GROWING CONFIDENCE IN ECONOMY AND PATRIOTIZM ,SWIFT HELP TO THOSE IN TROUBLE ABROAD AND SO MANY MORE POSITIVE THINGS ………………………………. TRUMP 2020 . MIKE PENCE 2024-2032 AND TRUMP’S CHILDREN AFTER I just took a dump wiped the Pelosi off my Cuomo but still smells like Schiff in here……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… . ALWAYS REMEMBER

      Rumors Are Carried by HATERS

      Spread by FOOLS

      And Accepted By IDIOTS , WHICH ONE ARE you ? .

    2. YES , WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? IS TRUMP SUPPOSE TO BABYSIT EVERY LEFTIE DEMOCRATIC CITY IN USA ? .DUH . LEFTIE SANCTUARY CITIES ARE A PERFECT SANCTUARY FOR ALIEN VIRUSES TODAY — YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT , SO NOW DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES AND LIVE IN BREEDING GROUNDS FOR EPIDEMIES . OPEN BORDERS LOOK LIKE TOTAL IDIOCY TODAY ,BUT LEFTIES WANTED OOOOOPEN BORDERS LOL .

    1. YES WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? .DUH

    1. @Mike Salka he got over a million dollars from Novartis a HCQ producer. He also is a shareholder in Gilead Sciences the maker of resdesivir.

    2. Al mac he also owns hotels and a clothing line , the fact that Forbes put his total investment at $3000 doesn’t make me care at all , it’s like blaming my Tesla stock for your neighbors car accident . And nobody batted an eye when Pelosi recieved access to a reserved visa stock a week before she voted on a bill to cap preditory interest rates , she convinced dems to vote no and is now worth 110M , but orange man bad for 3k in stock that’s rapped up in a fund . Excuse me if I’m not running around like my hair is on fire

    3. @Mike Salka that 3000 is just his holding via a mutual fund you clown. He was given a million dollars by Novartis. That’s a million dollars! His holding in Gilead Sciences is definitely not $3000. He has direct shareholding in Gilead not through some mutual fund.

    4. Al mac once again , anyone with money has stocks , is anyone with 3M stock in the wrong because mask sales are on the rise ?

  5. I’m assuming this all happened back in Nov or Dec last year it had slowly started and I’ve heard a lot of people saying the same including professionals .

    1. @Wild One other countries numbers are low because they are not lying about the numbers. Funny how the only deaths we seem to have right now is cov19. People have stopped killing each other and committing suicides. Even car accidents have stopped killing people. Cancer has stopped killing. Remember the guy who’s mother died from cancer was listed on death certificate as cov19 and her test had said negative

    1. YES WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? .DUH

    2. @Cro Boy you are so stupid. These other countries you are bragging about doing so much better are using the very medicine you are making jokes about. Doctors all over the US are prescribing it with great results. I can see you get your info from.CNN.

    1. What we had a vaccine? You mean the therapy drug that has been around for 65 years with no direct deaths when used as directed, and has been proven to help reduce the duration of Covid symptoms ? That one ?

    2. @Joe Bidens Leg Hair Malaria is not a virus. It’s cause by parasites also there is no vaccine. Not yet anyway. So you are both wrong.

    3. @Jerome Pringle nope it’s a virus,born from mosquito bites in 3rd world crapholes..nice try though Trayvon

    4. @Joe Bidens Leg Hair You are so wrong. Google is your friend, but most racist are dumb so it probably doesn’t matter to you.

    5. @Joe Bidens Leg Hair you are so wrong, Malaria is not a virus and has no vaccin. Cloroquine is not a vaccin it’s a medecine to treat malaria.

  6. “One moment of incompetence can be fatal.”
    Frank Herbert

    “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
    Donald Trump

    “Responsibility is a unique concept… You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you… If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else.”
    Admiral H.G Rickover, Father of the US Nuclear Navy

    “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
    The Declaration of Independence

    The Fifth Basic Law of Stupidity:
    “A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person” because “stupid people cause losses to other people with no counterpart of gains on their own account. Thus the society as a whole is impoverished.”
    https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/09/the_basic_laws_of_human_stupidity.html

  7. This president is mentally sick! What ever happened to our constitution! How sad for this country.

    1. YES , WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? IS TRUMP SUPPOSE TO BABYSIT EVERY LEFTIE DEMOCRATIC CITY IN USA ? .DUH . LEFTIE SANCTUARY CITIES ARE A PERFECT SANCTUARY FOR ALIEN VIRUSES TODAY — YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT , SO NOW DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES AND LIVE IN BREEDING GROUNDS FOR EPIDEMIES . OPEN BORDERS LOOK LIKE TOTAL IDIOCY TODAY ,BUT LEFTIES CRIED FOR OOOOOPEN BORDERS LOL .

  8. They’re literally playing with our lives because all that matters in this world is money. We’re doomed.

    1. @michelle m luckily for Dems, it’s mostly republicans who are protesting in large numbers and crowding beaches demanding states open.. 🤭

    2. YES , WARNINGS WERE IGNORED BY NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS .DID TRUMP ORDERED THEM NOT TO BUY MASKS AND VENTILATORS ? IS TRUMP SUPPOSE TO BABYSIT EVERY LEFTIE DEMOCRATIC CITY IN USA ? .DUH . LEFTIE SANCTUARY CITIES ARE A PERFECT SANCTUARY FOR ALIEN VIRUSES TODAY — YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT , SO NOW DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES AND LIVE IN BREEDING GROUNDS FOR EPIDEMIES . OPEN BORDERS LOOK LIKE TOTAL IDIOCY TODAY ,BUT LEFTIES WANTED OOOOOPEN BORDERS LOL .

    3. kitol33
      First of all, you need to get back on your meds. Second, tune down your caps bro.

  9. Remember he said, “I only hire the best.” The best at what??? Proof that Trump is the ultimate conman..

  10. Billboards all across the Nation with a photo of The Don giving his (Miracle speech). “It will go away in April like a miracle”

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