President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Jay Bhattacharya will serve as the director of the National Institutes of Health during his second term in the White House.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Donald Trump plans to nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor known for his criticism of Covid lockdowns, to lead the National Institutes of Health.
Bhattacharya emerged as a leading critic of the interventions taken against the pandemic, such as business and school closings, mask and social distancing advisories and lockdowns.
The public-health establishment and left-wing media are rushing to discredit President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead public-health agencies, but his choices of medical heroes like Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya are just the kind of disruptors America needs.
Bhattacharya is a champion of the people and real science, who vows to "reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again."
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