Jay Bhattacharya, a prominent opponent of the Covid shutdown, has been appointed as the future director of a major US public health organization by US President-elect Donald Trump.
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Trump claimed to have chosen the economist and doctor with training from Stanford University to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest government-funded biomedical research organization in the world.
During the epidemic, Bhattacharya became the spokesperson for the hotly debated Great Barrington Declaration, an open statement against mass lockdowns.
Donald Trump’s top public health team is complete with Tuesday’s selection. As he gets ready to enter office on January 20, he has already announced all 15 cabinet positions.
Trump declared earlier this month that he wanted Robert Kennedy Jr., a former competitor, to lead the US health department. Although the medical world has praised Kennedy’s calls for more stringent monitoring of food additives, his skepticism about vaccines has frightened them.
Bhattacharya and Kennedy would “restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” according to a statement released by Trump.
Jim O’Neill, a former federal health official and close friend of Republican financier Peter Thiel, was also named by the president-elect on Tuesday to serve as the health department’s deputy secretary.
However, Bhattacharya gained greater notoriety after contesting the public health establishment’s approach.
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