Dr. Rick Bright, the whistleblower abruptly fired after pushing back against the Trump administration, described an urgent need to develop a national plan to combat the coronavirus to avoid disastrous overlap with the regular flu season. Failure to do so will be “devastating for our health care systems [and] for Americans,” he said in congressional testimony on Thursday. “I believe we could have done better,” Bright told the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “We knew going into this pandemic that critical medical equipment would be in short supply. “I was told that my urgings were causing a commotion,” Bright told the committee, saying that he was then removed from planning meetings.

Source: Huffington Post May 14, 2020 15:23 UTC