Rick Bright accused HHS Sec. Alex Azar of telling employees to "refrain from doing anything that would help Dr. Bright be successful in his new role."
An ousted top US health official amended his whistleblower complaint accusing the US of ignoring his early coronavirus warnings, claiming there is ongoing retaliation by Trump officials even after his ouster.
Story continuesBright then filed the initial whistleblower complaint in light of his ouster, claiming that he was reassigned because he refused to tout Trump-backed coronavirus treatments and accusing the government of disregarding his warnings on the threat of the coronavirus. At his new role at NIH, Bright was supposed to be working on virus diagnostic tests, but the complaint said he"is cut off from all vaccine work, cut off from all therapeutic work, and has a very limited role in the diagnostic work."
"I did not make any of these statements and Secretary Azar has never spoken to me in the manner alleged," the HHS said in a statement on behalf of Disbrow, according to the AP report."I have also never instructed any BARDA employee not to talk to Rick. In fact, I had a conversation with him yesterday about how to collaborate."
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