by Josephine Stratman at Daily News
Dr. Jay Varma, the city’s embattled former COVID czar, has been fired from his job as executive vice president and chief medical officer at SIGA Technologies, following reports Varma attended a sex party and rave amid COVID lockdowns.
The news of Varma’s termination, disclosed in an SEC filing Monday, comes just days after videos of Varma, City Hall’s senior public health adviser under Mayor Bill de Blasio, were posted on Thursday by the conservative podcaster Steven Crowder.
“On September 23, 2024, the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) terminated Dr. Jay Varma, effective immediately, other than for cause, from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Company,” the SEC filing says.
In the videos, Varma is seen presumably on dates with a woman, describing a sex party he and his wife hosted at a hotel, and a dance party held under a bank that he attended.
The irony of the admissions added fuel to the story.
Varma had played a top role in directing the city’s guidelines for how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic from from April 2020 to May 2021. New York City was hit especially hard, with tens of thousands killed.
As a top official in charge of the…
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