New York City’s former health adviser has been fired from his job after admitting in an undercover video that he attended parties and did illegal drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SIGA Technologies—a health care company that describes itself as developing medicines to prevent and treat infectious diseases like mpox—said on Sept. 23 that the company’s board of directors terminated Dr. Jay Varma, effective immediately.
The reason was “other than for cause,” the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Varma had been executive vice president and chief medical officer for the company….