U.S. settles scientist's whistleblower complaint about Trump COVID-19 response | Reuters

 … Bright said he was ousted from BARDA in part because he resisted efforts to push the drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19, something advocated by Trump himself...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-settles-scientists-whistleblower-complaint-about-trump-covid-19-response-2021-08-09/

HHS Whistleblower Takes Aim At Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Pre-Election COVID Vaccine Push | Talking Points Memo

... "The messaging that President Trump gave to America and the world when he left the hospital about there is no need to be afraid of this virus is probably the most reckless and deadly piece of information I have ever heard," Bright said...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rick-bright-trump-administration-covid-19-vaccine

Here are 6 key moments from Rick Bright’s bombshell whistleblower testimony – Raw Story

It was obvious that Rick Bright’s Thursday testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce was really getting to President Donald Trump when he denounced the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority as a “disgruntled employee” — which is exactly the type of insult that Trump resorts to when someone gets under his skin (journalist Scott Martelle, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, argued that Trump’s insult only adds to Bright’s credibility).
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/here-are-6-key-moments-from-rick-brights-bombshell-whistleblower-testimony/

Trump Throws Shade At Dr. Rick Bright As The Whistleblower Warns Congress of Dark Days Ahead

After watching government whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright tell Congress that the President's pandemic strategy has led us towards disaster, Trump appeared on the White House lawn and attempted to discredit the doctor.
https://youtu.be/Wie-JIZW-Ew

Ousted vaccine official to warn of ‘darkest winter’ if virus returns without better response - The Washington Post

Rick Bright has filed a whistleblower complaint after being removed from his post as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/ousted-vaccine-official-to-warn-of-darkest-winter-if-virus-returns-without-better-response/2020/05/13/f19ba79a-953b-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html

‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored offer of 7 million N95 masks per month in early days of pandemic – Raw Story

Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company up on its offer to supply millions of N95 respirators to the government early on in the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Post reported that federal scientist Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint last week over his demotion following his criticism of the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, detailed communications with Prestige Ameritech in January in which HHS ignored the medical supply company’s offer to produce masks.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/criminal-negligence-trump-officials-ignored-offer-of-7-million-n95-masks-per-month-in-early-days-of-pandemic/

HHS Refused to Secure N95 Masks for Coronavirus, Whistleblower Says

A WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT filed earlier this week partially solves the mystery of how the country with the most expensive health care system on earth wound up unable to provide enough face masks to protect its workers. The report from Rick Bright, who was ousted from his job as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of Health and Human Services, in April, also provides a new villain in the tragic saga of the Trump administration’s mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis: Robert Kadlec. https://theintercept.com/2020/05/07/coronavirus-whistleblower-hhs-n95-ppe/

Ousted U.S. whistleblower says Trump health official played down coronavirus threat - Reuters

The ousted director of a U.S. agency responsible for developing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic filed a whistleblower’s complaint on Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of retaliating when he raised concerns.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bright-idUSKBN22H2VC