Exactly. And Rick Bright, Who Was a Whistle Blower, Was Actually Leading an Effort to Improve Surveillance

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There were few signs that something had gone terribly wrong under the trump administration. But rick bright filed a formal whistle blower complaint about the trump administration's handling of the pandemic. He was one of those people who think of like government scientists, lifer sort of person. A lot of the pandemic contracts we're going to companies affiliated with jeryd Cushner trom's son-in-law.

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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