🧵re Dr. Rick Bright & Regeneron: 👇
The contract with Regeneron, to urgently develop this treatment for COVID-19 was the very first contract @RickABright put in place as BARDA director to respond to the virus. Negotiations started in Jan & contract finalized on Feb 4, 2020. 1/5 Before anyone in HHS or the White House would listen to Dr. Rick Bright about the urgent need to respond to this virus, Dr. Bright risked his job and started the work. hhs.gov/about/news/202… 2/5

Seriously!?? Who at @dsw_us thought it would be a good idea to air a commercial where the employees pull down their masks to talk to each other? Completely irresponsible. Cc: @Adweek

Such an utterly avoidable travesty that it took THIS long for science to prevail. How much harm was inflicted upon Americans by this Administration as a result of politics being placed ahead of science? This is not a case of “better late than never.”

politico.com/news/2020/06/1… Countless respected scientists told this Administration, from day 1, that it should never happen, period.

Dr. Right Bright on a conference call with reporters:
"The past few years have been beyond challenging.... I was pressured to let politics and cronyism drive decisions, over opinions of the best scientists in government." "We are in an extremely difficult global crisis. And the worst might still be ahead of us. There are many scientific questions to be answered. Americans need to have all the facts; they need to know the truth about this pandemic."

If you have not yet watched #Unbelievable on @netflix, you should. NOW. It is riveting and harrowing- its ESSENTIAL tv.
We say #Ibelievesurvivors for a reason. #Unbelievable convincingly explains why, in agonizing detail. 1/4 @netflix As the Atlantic put it: "It’s impossible to watch Unbelievable and not think about recent cases in which women speaking out about their own sexual assaults have been failed by systems that were supposed to offer them the bare minimum of due diligence." 2/4
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