Dr. Rick Bright, the whistleblower suddenly fired after pushing back against the Trump administration, explained an urgent requirement to develop a nationwide strategy to fight the coronavirus to prevent devastating overlap with the regular influenza season. Failure to do so will be “devastating for our healthcare systems [and] for Americans,” he said in congressional statement on Thursday.
” I think we might have done much better,” Intense told your home Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “I think there were important steps we did not take in time.”
” The urgent requirement for funding at the outset of a pandemic is something that we’ve understood about,” Bright said. President Donald Trump has faced unrelenting criticism for his administration’s hold-up in forming a coherent federal response to the crisis that has maimed the economy and killed more than 84,000 Americans so far.
” We understood going into this pandemic that vital medical devices would be in brief supply. I began getting informs from market colleagues in mid- and late January informing me that, from an outside view, the supply chain was reducing quickly, telling me that other nations that we depend on to supply a number of these masks were blocking exports and stopping transfer of these masks to the United States,” Intense told the subcommittee.
When he alerted Health and Person Services Secretary Alex Azar to these worrying shortages, nevertheless, Bright said the respo