Dr. Death: Who’s Murdering Our Doctors, Nurses and First Responders? – Whistleblower

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The Intercept: A WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT filed earlier this week partially solves the mystery of how the country with the most expensive health care system on earth wound up unable to provide enough face masks to protect its workers. The report from Rick Bright, who was ousted from his job as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of Health and Human Services, in April, also provides a new villain in the tragic saga of the Trump administration’s mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis: Robert Kadlec.

Though officially tasked with quickly mobilizing a national response to public health crises, Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response and formerly Bright’s boss, is described in the report as a petty tyrant who ignored, mocked, and thwarted Bright’s repeated efforts to address the imminent shortage of masks and other personal protective equipment in January and February, as the virus began spreading across the country.



In a lengthy, detailed account that reads like a script from a horror movie and will likely earn Kadlec the lasting enmity of everyone who has lost a front-line worker to the virus, Bright lays out a series of unsuccessful and increasingly desperate attempts to push Kadlec and HHS Secretary Alex Azar to recognize and address the looming shortage of personal protective equipment. The attempts to call attention to the crisis began in mid-January, when Bright, a virologist who has spent decades in government preparing for public health emergencies, called for a senior-level meeting to coordinate the response to the coming pandemic.

But Bright’s bosses were unconvinced of the need for the meeting of the “disaster leadership group.” In a January 18 email, Kadlec responded to Bright’s suggestion that he was “not sure if that is a time sensitive urgency.”

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/07/coronavirus-whistleblower-hhs-n95-ppe/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

and from Business Insider:

Business Insider: Robert Kadlec is the Trump administration official in charge of preparing for a biological disaster. Before that, however, he was a “strategic adviser” for a company called Emergent BioSolutions Inc., a fact he neglected to disclose before his office awarded the company a contract worth over $2 billion, according to a new report.

In a report on Monday, The Washington Post revealed that Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Human Services, failed to inform Congress of his relationship with Emergent — and its founder, Fuad El-Hibri, with whom he helped launch a biodefense startup East West Protection.

In 2019, reflecting concern that the greatest biological threat was a foreign government weaponizing an existing virus, Kadlec’s office “made a deal to buy up to $2.8 billion of the [smallpox] vaccine from a company that once paid Kadlec as a consultant,” The Post reported, “a connection he did not disclose on a Senate questionnaire when he was nominated.”

Kadlec’s long-term focus has been on preparing for bioterrorism. And when he assumed his position in the Trump administration he turned towards beefing up biodefense, while “cutting planned spending on emerging infectious diseases, despite warnings from scientists that a natural contagion could also be devastating,” The Post reported.

His office also canceled an Obama-era deal, worth $35 million, that could have enabled the government to manufacture an additional 1.5 million N95 masks per day, The Post noted.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-official-awarded-2-billion-contract-to-a-former-employer-2020-5

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  1. Biological has been the top of the general security concern for humanity since the splitting of the gene. But even before that, waves of pandemics are historically recorded back to 5th century BC. I suppose at one point people could have argued nuclear, but that didn’t pass the threshold of likelihood of pandemic.
    However, given all that is known, we must connect this admin to biological threat, making the admin a greater threat than the pandemic itself. This is primarily because we have technology to mitigate an outbreak, but they have the power to control those efforts, therefore they are demonstrating a greater threat than pandemic itself. This is most aptly demonstrated by a governor feeling the need to protect a plane load of tests with the national guard of that state, FROM the federal response mitigation thwart team. That’s how I see it.

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