Trump picks Covid lockdown skeptic as head of key nationwide well being company | EUROtoday

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The subsequent director of the National Institutes of Health can be a physician who argued for permitting younger and wholesome individuals to turn into contaminated with Covid-19 lengthy earlier than a vaccine was accessible and later fought in opposition to mandating vaccination in opposition to the novel coronavirus.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday stated he’ll nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, at the moment a professor of well being coverage at Standard University and director of Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, to guide the National Institutes of Health, one of many world’s foremost medical analysis entities and oversee its $47 billion in funding.

In an announcement, Trump stated Bhattacharya would work along with his Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to “examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease.”

He added: “Together, they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!”

Bhattacharya earned a doctorate in medication from Stanford in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the identical college three years later. Born in Kolkata, India, he’s a naturalized US citizen.

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