The Emotion in Rick Bright's Voice When He's Speaking About Cove

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Rick bright is now moving on to try to start up a surveillance system, this thing that he said was going to be really important from the beginning. And he's doing that privately. I want to talk a little bit more about why he thinks doing that outside of the government could be an important thing to do,. But before we do that, we've talked a lot about the difficulties under the trump administration.

Rick Bright exposed former president Trump's political meddling in the US COVID response. Now he is championing a new privately funded initiative to track viral spread and combat new variants.

We discuss the challenges of collecting data on a rapidly spreading virus, from transmission dynamics to genomic surveillance. We also ask why a veteran government scientist like Bright, the ex-director of the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, would take a new path in the private sector.

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