Federal and state agencies are investigating allegations that the Maryland Department of Health retaliated against a whistleblower after she pushed health officials to notify potentially more than 1,000 patients who may have received spoiled vaccine doses and insisted they remediate problems at vaccine clinics.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the state Department of Budget and Management’s whistleblower division have been conducting interviews, according to the whistleblower and her attorney, related to reports that health officials took punitive action against a deputy director overseeing vaccine and testing compliance by removing her from her position and instructing her not to communicate with colleagues involved in assessing the compliance of clinical operations.
A spokesman for the state budget office said he could not confirm the investigation while the federal agency did not respond to a request for comment.
Jessicah Ray, a licensed clinician, filed complaints with federal and state authorities late last year alleging that she was moved out of the role she had filled since October 2020 — leading clinical teams with more than 60 employees who covered testing and vaccine operations — in retaliation.
Ray said she drew the ire of her superiors when she pressed them to fix compliance issues at state-run and contractor-operated vaccine clinics — including at sites held from July to September by vaccine vendor TrueCare24, a San Francisco-based...
CNN is defending its reporting on a statement given by Iranian officials regarding a ceasefire agreement the U.S. and Iran reached just hours before President Trump was set to launch an attack on ...