US has no master plan to fight COVID-19, sacked official warns
An ousted US health official warned Congress on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration has no “master plan” to fight the coronavirus pandemic and is unprepared to distribute enough vaccines to immunize millions of Americans.
He also warned that the 12- to 18-month timeframe being discussed for developing a viable vaccine might be too aggressive.“We need to have a strategy and plan in place now to make sure that we can not only build that vaccine, make it, distribute it, but administer it in a fair and equitable plan,” Bright said.Some government and private experts have stressed that the pandemic, which to date has infected some 1.
“He was fired for being right,” the House health subcommittee chair Anna Eshoo said in her opening comments.
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