A Top Government Scientist Claims He Was Ousted for Raising Concerns About Malaria Drug Touted by Trump

Rick Bright filed a whistleblower complaint and said the Trump administration also rejected his warnings on COVID-19

Rick Bright, deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response for Health and Human Services , listens during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on March 8, 2018.

Bright also said the Trump administration rejected his warnings on COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Bright said he “acted with urgency” to address the growing spread of COVID-19 after the World Health Organization issued a warning in January. Bright alleges in the complaint that political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services had tried to promote hydroxychloroquine “as a panacea.” The officials also “demanded that New York and New Jersey be ‘flooded’ with these drugs, which were imported from factories in Pakistan and India that had not been inspected by the FDA,” the complaint says.

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