Rick Bright, the former Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) director, turned "whistleblower" had a windfall after HHS had a settlement with him.

However, looking back at his statements and actions - he underestimated Trump's abilities and capacities to organise the response to the pandemic and wrongly analyzed the Trump's vaccine plans.

He was vehement about HCQ not being effective as a cure for Covid19... However, recent studies had shown that HCQ + AZM could increase the survival rate of seriously ill covid19 patients that are under the ventilator assistance by 2.9 times, as powerful or even better than Regeneron's REGEN-COV cocktail.

HCQ+AZM+Zinc also proved to be an effective combination to reduce the chances of serious covid19 significantly (14.5x for hospitalisation, 13x for death)

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