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Vaccine Expert Who Blew Whistle on Trump’s Coronavirus Response Resigns

HeadlineOct 07, 2020

The Trump administration’s former top vaccine chief resigned Tuesday, six months after he was demoted for blowing the whistle on President Trump’s promotion of untested drugs for COVID-19 and nepotism in the Department of Health and Human Services. In an amended whistleblower complaint, Dr. Rick Bright says he’d been assigned no meaningful work in over a month because of political grudges.

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