Stanford Health Economist Tapped to Lead NIH in Trump’s Latest Nomination
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“President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health,” the New York Times[1] reports.
“Dr. Bhattacharya is one of three lead authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, a manifesto issued in 2020 that contended that the virus should be allowed to spread among young healthy people who were “at minimal risk of death” and could thus develop natural immunity, while prevention efforts were targeted to older people and the vulnerable.”
Dr. Rossello is a medical doctor specializing in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He founded PreventiveMedicineDaily.com to provide evidence-based health information supported by authoritative medical research.
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