Whistleblower Testifies to 'Unforgettable' Medical Supplier Warnings: 'We're in Deep Shit...."

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SO damning. I'm glad we got this on the record.


Whistleblower Testifies to ‘Unforgettable’ Medical Supplier Warnings: ‘We’re in Deep Shit. The World Is. And We Need to Act’
By Peter Wade


Dr. Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), testified before Congress on Thursday and painted a bleak picture about the administration’s coronavirus response and the potential of a vaccine in a short time line.

Bright spoke about many missed opportunities by the Trump administration in the early days of the pandemic.

“I believe we could have done better,” he said to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “I believe there were critical steps we did not take in time.”

Notably, Bright quoted medical supplier Mike Bowen, who sent Bright an email in January that talked about the “completely decimated” supply of N95 respirators to protect health-care workers, adding that the government refused to ramp up production: “We are in deep shit, the world is,” Bowen, a co-owner of mask manufacturer Prestige Ameritech, warned.

Bright said that he “pushed that [warning] forward to the highest levels” of officials at Health and Human Services but that he received “no response” or was given “excuses.”

“We were already behind the ball,” he said. “That was our last window of opportunity to turn on that production to save the lives of those health-care workers, and we didn’t act.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-rick-bright-testifies-medical-supplier-coronavirus-999812/

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1. To add to this context, Mike Bowen (mask maker) self-identified as a Republican ...

... as a Republican when it was his turn to testify today at that same hearing of the House sub-committee.

BONUS ... in these days of cray cray repub congress critters.

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2. I hope the surviving families are able to sue the shit out of trump and his accomplices.

Every damn Republican in Congress and heading up trump's fake reign needs to be charged criminally.

I hope we see that.
I cannot bear the thought of how many grieving families there are and will be, as a direct result of trump's actions.

[MFGsunny]

3. + 1000 n/t

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4. K&R