Vaccine expert with dark warning – Dagbladet

President Donald Trump’s crown strategy is gaining more and more resistance from experts. On Tuesday, it was infection control expert Anthony Fauci, and on Thursday it was doctor and vaccine expert Rick Bright.

On Thursday, Bright testified against President Trump in The New York Times in late April in the House of Representatives for nearly four hours.

Without clear planning and a better coordinated response, Bright warned that 2020 could be the “darkest winter” in decades for Americans.

“Time is running out because the virus is still spreading everywhere, people are beginning to get restless and want to leave their homes,” said Bright, according to The Guardian.

In written testimony, Bright added that without a proper plan, he fears the pandemic will be much worse and protracted, “which will cause unparalleled illness and death.”

– Life was compromised

At the time of writing this article, the United States has 1,416,528 reported cases of infection and 85,813 deaths associated with the virus, placing it at the top of both lists internationally for infections and deaths, according to live University monitoring. Johns Hopkins.

Bright ignored the Trump administration’s work on the virus, saying he believes this figure would have been lower if the administration had acted faster.

“Lack of action has put many lives at risk on the front line,” said Bright, who focused attention especially on the health department, writes the Washington Post.

He further claimed that the administration did not listen to his first warnings about hoarding masks and other equipment.

– Life was put at risk and I want to say that life was lost. We were forced to purchase this equipment from other countries without adequate quality standards. So even today, our doctors and nurses in hospitals wear N95 masks from other countries that do not provide the same protection as N95 masks by American standards, he said, according to the Washington Post.

Bright is the first federal health official to publicly criticize the Trump administration in such a vigorous and detailed way, given its prominent position in the biomedical world, Politico writes.

vaccine plan

Bright was also particularly excited about President Trump’s promise of a vaccine by the end of the year.

Infection protection expert Anthony Fauci has even estimated that it can take anywhere from 12 to 18 months. But Bright believes it will take longer, claiming that the United States has no plans to develop, produce and distribute a vaccine.

“We need a strategy and plan now to ensure that we can not only develop that vaccine, manufacture and distribute it, but also administer it fairly and reasonably,” he said, adding:

– We don’t have that yet, and that is cause for considerable concern.

He believes it is an undeniable fact that the United States will see an increase in covid-19 this fall, which will be greatly exacerbated by the challenges of seasonal flu.

In an interview with Dagbladet, professor of hygiene and infection control, Bjørg Marit Andersen, also said that a new wave could turn into a winter illness like the flu and other viruses. He also warned that a new wave could be worse for younger people.

– Dissatisfied employee

When Trump faced Bright’s interview in the New York Times in April, the president said he did not know who Bright was.

– I do not know the so-called announcer Rick Bright, I never knew or heard from him, but for me he is an unsatisfied employee, he does not like or respect the people I spoke to and who, with his attitude, should no longer work for the authorities . Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Also outside the White House, Trump told the press that Bright is a “dissatisfied” employee, Politico writes. Alex M. Azar claimed that officials followed the investigator’s ideas.

“Everything he complained about was filed,” Azar told reporters in front of the White House. He believes the charges do not retain water.

Reject the charges

It was in April when Rick Bright, in an interview with The New York Times, said he had been removed from office because he resisted Trump’s recommendations on anti-malaria medicine against covid-19.

Until then, Bright had led the federal agency involved in the development of a vaccine; The Biomedical Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

He was transferred to a less influential position at the National Institutes of Health.

Bright sent a formal notice last week accusing Health Department management of wanting to bring large amounts of hydroxychloroquine to areas affected by New York’s covid-19.

The Ministry of Health, which is his employer, dismissed the charges and stated that Bright has gained an important position in the development of new coronavirus tests at the National Institutes of Health.

– unacceptable

As mentioned, Trump defeated another expert earlier this week, infection control expert Anthony Fauci.

On Tuesday, Fauci warned that opening businesses and schools too quickly in the United States could lead to new outbreaks of new outbreaks across the country, new deaths, unnecessary suffering, and further financial reduction in the country.

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) also came out and warned against releasing restrictions too quickly for fear it may cause the spread of the infection.

“For me, this is not an acceptable response, especially when it comes to schools,” President Donald Trump said when he met with journalists the next day.

The only thing Trump thought would be acceptable now is to keep “old age” teachers and professors at home away from work.

This is not the first time that Trump and Fauci have openly contradicted each other.