Ousted federal vaccine expert alleges health secretary has continued to retaliate
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the ousted federal vaccine expert, amended his whistleblower complaint Thursday against the Trump administration, adding new allegations that health secretary Alex Azar is leading an effort to sabotage his new job at the National Institutes of Health.
Those allegations are based almost entirely on Bright’s secondhand account of a conversation between his replacement at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and an unnamed employee at that agency.
