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Trump picks NIH critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead agency

Trump names COVID lockdown skeptic to lead NIH, another sign of shifts in key agencies

President-elect Trump selected a critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates to lead the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is known for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 manifesto that advocated allowing COVID to spread in order to achieve herd immunity.

Intelligencer on MSN · 20h

What We Know About Trump’s COVID-Skeptic Pick to Lead the NIH

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya argued against COVID-19 lockdowns and was in favor of using herd immunity to fight the pandemic.

The Stanford Daily · 8h

Medicine professor Jay Bhattacharya, COVID lockdown critic, selected to lead NIH

The Stanford professor was appointed Tuesday to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya has previously made controversial critiques of lockdowns and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Trump to appoint COVID-19 lockdown critic as NIH chief

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr Jay Bhattacharya to assume the role of director of the National Institute of ...

NIH leader afraid of COVID jabs, FDA adviser says Fauci admitted teens don't need vaccine

"I don’t want to have a heart attack" by taking any more jabs, relatively young agency branch chief tells undercover date.

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NIH Beats Claim It Withheld Information on Covid-19's Origins

The National Institutes of Health was entitled to pretrial judgment in a case alleging it inadequately responded to a ...

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