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US vaccine expert removed

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Washington

The head of the US agency in charge of developing a vaccine against coronavirus said on Wednesday that he was removed from his job for opposing the chloroquine treatment promoted by US President Donald Trump. Dr Rick Bright said he was removed on Tuesday as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the government agency for developing and procuring treatments and vaccines, and moved to a lesser position in the National Institutes of Health.

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