Senate confirms Trump's pick, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to lead NIH

[Michie]

The United States Senate has confirmed an outspoken critic of COVID-19 lockdowns as the new director of the National Institutes of Health as President Donald Trump's cabinet continues to take shape.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 53-47 Tuesday to confirm Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as the director of the National Institutes of Health. The vote fell along party lines, with Republicans supporting Bhattacharya’s nomination and Democrats opposing it.

Bhattacharya, who served as the director of Stanford University’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, emerged on the national scene as a staunch critic of the U.S. government's heavy-handed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Senate confirms Trump's pick, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to lead NIH

The United States Senate has confirmed an outspoken critic of COVID-19 lockdowns as the new director of the National Institutes of Health as President Donald Trump s cabinet continues to take shape

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[FireDragon76]

Trump feels the need to appoint people with contrarian beliefs that don't match the scientific, medical, or economic consensus... as long as they tell him what he and his base wants to hear.

The Great Barrington Declaration pitted unknown and vague risks, like 'poor mental health outcomes', against real, known risks, like respiratory failure, death, and long COVID. That doesn't sound like good public health policy.