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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThings That Make You Go Hmmm... Trump vaccine agency head suddenly leaves.
[link:https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/21/rick-bright-out-at-barda/|
Director of U.S. agency key to vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic
By Nicholas Florko @NicholasFlorko
April 21, 2020
WASHINGTON Rick Bright, one of the nations leading vaccine development experts and the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, is no longer leading the organization, officials told STAT.
The shakeup at the agency, known as BARDA, couldnt come at a more inopportune time for the office, which invests in drugs, devices, and other technologies that help address infectious disease outbreaks and which has been at the center of the governments coronavirus pandemic response.
Bright, whose departure was confirmed by three industry sources and two current Trump administration sources, will instead move into a narrower role at the National Institutes of Health. Gary Disbrow, Brights former deputy at BARDA, will serve as the acting director of the office, an HHS spokesperson confirmed to STAT.
BARDA was expected to play an even larger role in the coming months; Congress more than tripled BARDAs budget in the most recent coronavirus stimulus package. Already, the office has a role in some of the splashiest Covid-19 projects, including partnerships with Johnson & Johnson and Moderna Therapeutics, both of which are developing potential Covid-19 treatments.
You really have to wonder about the timing and the profitability numbers on this one, eh?
What does he know that they don't want him to tell us? Or what did he tell them that they didn't want to hear?
Anyone for a hydroxychloroquine cocktail?
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Trump vaccine agency head suddenly leaves. (Original Post)
Ford_Prefect
Apr 2020
OP
Someone sold Trump a bill of goods on that one... He doesn't know anything and other grifters
LiberalArkie
Apr 2020
#4
muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. He didn't push hydroxychloroquine hard enough?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2. Another job for.........the Wax Son in Law!
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)3. Hmmmm indeed...
WTF was tRump even thinking, that his precious hydroxychloroquine would actually work? What a dipshit...
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)4. Someone sold Trump a bill of goods on that one... He doesn't know anything and other grifters
tell him what to do and he does it..
benld74
(9,909 posts)5. Hmmmmm, on the next Fall Guy
Patterson
(1,531 posts)6. Trump needs him out of the way so he can take in the profits of a vaccine.
There is too much money in vaccines and he wants his part. This guy is in the way.
Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)7. Or did he find something that works better and won't cost nearly as much?