Ex-NYC COVID czar fired from job after copping to drug-fueled sex parties during pandemic

The city’s ex-COVID czar got the boot from his job at a pharmaceutical firm Monday — a week after he was caught bragging about hosting sex parties and attending an underground rave at the height of the pandemic.Dr.Jay Varma was serving as a senior health adviser to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio during COVID-19 when he and his wife put on the sex- and drug-fueled debauchery and attended a packed Wall Street rave, according to secretly recorded conversations the doctor had with a woman.“On September 23, 2024, the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ: SIGA) 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 firm wrote in a filing to the Securties and Exchange Commission.“Pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement, Dr.Varma’s service on the Company’s Board of Directors also automatically ended effective immediately,” said the filing, which is required when an event occurs that is deemed to affect public-company shareholders.Varma critic and city Councilman Bob Holden said in a blistering statement, “Dr.

Jay Varma’s firing is a step in the right direction, but the consequences for his actions are long overdue.”“Varma boasted about harassing people into submission over the vaccine mandate and admitted to participating in illegal sex parties, all while he, former Health Commissioner Dr.David Chokshi, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed draconian measures that shut down the entire city,” the Queens Democrat said.“The hypocrisy is outrageous.”Varma’s seamy chats — which included him boasting,” I did all this deviant, like sexual stuff,” and, “I had to be kind of sneaky about it … because I was running the entire COVID response in the city” — were made public last week by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder.His firing came as enraged city business owners and parents joined lawmakers on the steps of...