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Oust­ed BAR­DA chief Rick Bright blasts HHS of­fi­cial for a long record of im­prop­er in­ter­fer­ence that pre­ced­ed the pan­dem­ic

Rick Bright says he was fired from his top post at BAR­DA be­cause of his op­po­si­tion to us­ing un­proven and dan­ger­ous drugs to fight the pan­dem­ic. But his whistle­blow­er com­plaint on file made it clear that he had been skir­mish­ing with Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fi­cials and a par­tic­u­lar in­dus­try con­sul­tant for a va­ri­ety of biotech com­pa­nies — in­clud­ing one with al­leged con­nec­tions to Jared Kush­n­er — long be­fore the out­break oc­curred.

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