Although the House of Representatives is not in session, whistleblower Dr. Bright will testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dr. Rick Bright, a top government virologist who was working on combating COVID-19, plans to tell lawmakers Thursday that he was “involuntarily transferred to a more limited and less impactful position at the National Institutes of Health,” and that this personnel move was retaliatory.
He’s testifying Thursday before the Subcommittee on Health for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about the whistleblower complaint he filed about being removed from his job as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). Bright claims that he was ousted from his position after raising concerns about a coronavirus treatment supported by President Trump.
In his opening statement, Bright says that he believes his transfer came about as a result of his insistence that money allocated by Congress to confront COVID-19 should be put “into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit.
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