He was pressured to
invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the
people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and
including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He was forced to
transfer funds to acquire drugs for the Strategic National Stockpile,
America’s most important reserve of lifesaving medications, based not on
health needs but on “political connections and cronyism.” He was
instructed to use his department’s budget to purchase flu medications of
questionable efficacy. And when the COVID-19 crisis erupted, he was
pressured to approve a plan that would “flood” cities with unproven and
untested doses of chloroquine drugs, from uninspected manufacturing
plants in Asia. When his efforts to work through the system failed, he
decided he had a “moral obligation to the American public” to ring the
alarm about the plan, “which he believed constituted a substantial and
specific danger to public health and safety.” In retaliation, he was
“smeared,” with officials unfairly accusing him of dropping the ball on
vaccine development and PPE preparation.
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