“Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined,” the ousted vaccine expert warns, “2020 will be [the] darkest winter in modern history”
, Bright plans to say that the pandemic “will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities” if “we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science.” “Our window of opportunity is closing,” his prepared testimony reads, warning that a resurgence of COVID-19 this fall would compound the challenges of seasonal influenza and put an “unprecedented strain” on the country’s health care system.
Bright has emerged as a critic since filing a whistleblower complaint last week alleging that the Trump administration ignored his early warnings about coronavirus and that he was removed from his position as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority —the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine—for his reluctance to promote an unproven malaria drug favored by the president as a coronavirus treatment.
In publicly condemning the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, Bright has emerged as a hero, but a Politico profilea murkier picture of the doctor’s leadership and credibility that could threaten his performance on Thursday. A number of Bright’s current and former colleagues, as well other administration officials and outside advisers, depicted Bright “as a demanding boss who inspired some staff but alienated others, unrelated to his dealings with the White House.
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