Defying 'logic and the law,' HHS inspector general allows Trump's vaccine czar

[turbinetree]

maintain in big pharma investments

Published 2 mins ago on July 15, 2020
By Common Dreams





Ethics watchdogs on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general, who decided this week that Moncef Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive now heading the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine task force, does not have to disclose or divest his investments in the industry.

As the co-director of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership aimed at finding a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of 2020, Slaoui is in the position to award contracts to pharmaceutical companies researching potential vaccines and treatments.

As Common Dreams reported in May when Slaoui was appointed and designated a “volunteer contractor” by the Trump administration, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) vaccines department continues to hold stock in the company, even as it is collaborating with Sanofi on a potential vaccine.

“We oppose this kind of corruption and blatant conflict of interest,” said the healthcare coalition Lower Drug Prices Now in response to the ruling.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/defying-logic-and-the-law-hhs-inspector-general-allows-trumps-vaccine-czar-to-maintain-big-pharma-investments/

So is the reason of many of why the stock market has been going up lately.................

[GeorgeGist]

1. He was pretty much a failure at GSK.

[Squinch]

2. OK. So in answer to all the posts lately that have been asking if a vaccine was developed this year

would I take it?

No effing way.

[Karadeniz]

3. I can't believe an inspector general ruled there was no conflict of interest.

[Nevilledog]

4. All the other Inspectors got fired for doing their jobs truthfully.