Washington, May 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S., on Capitol Hill, ousted U.S. vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  

In prepared remarks submitted to Congress, Dr. Bright warns: “Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be darkest winter in modern history.” 

In a whistleblower complaint, Dr. Bright says he was forced out of his job at the Department of Health and Human Services after he resisted the Trump administration’s promotion of untested treatments for COVID-19.

In related news, The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump is pressuring officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change their COVID-19 death toll methodology in order to produce a lower figure.  Trump’s push directly contradicts the views of Trump’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who told Congress this week that the death toll is likely higher than an official tally kept by Johns Hopkins researchers — now at more than 84,000 U.S. deaths.