Trump announces Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as NIH chief in flurry of appointments

[mystery-ak]

Very good pick imho

Trump announces NIH chief and flurry of other appointments
By
Brady Knox
November 26, 2024 9:09 pm
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President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick to lead the National Institutes of Health and a flurry of other appointments.

Trump selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the NIH, working with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct national medical research.

Bhattacharya serves as director of Stanford University’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging.

“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will 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,” Trump wrote. “Together, they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!”

He also announced Jim O’Neill as the pick for Kennedy’s deputy secretary. Kevin Hassett was chosen as the director of the White House National Economic Counsel. Robert Lighthizer’s protege Jamieson Greer was nominated as the United States trade representative.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3243668/trump-announces-nih-chief-flurry-other-appointments/

[The_Reader_David]

YES!!!!  I was hoping one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration would get a top spot in the Federal medical bureaucracy.

[bilo]

Love it!

Lets get back to real science.

[mystery-ak]

NYT: ‘Experts’ Worry About Bhattacharya, He Opposed School Closures, Isn’t Focused on Stopping Spread ‘At All Costs’

Ian Hanchett 27 Nov 2024

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” New York Times Health Policy Correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg stated that “infectious disease experts” worry about NIH Director nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya because during the coronavirus pandemic, he opposed things like “school closures and experts who are more in the mainstream say that those measures saved a lot of lives,” and stated that Bhattacharya doesn’t hold the conventional public health thinking of “let’s stop the spread of the disease at all costs. He’s thinking about balancing the economy and other factors against public health imperatives.”

Stolberg said [relevant remarks begin around 17:25] that “infectious disease experts” are “worried about Jay Bhattacharya at NIH. He stood, during the pandemic, in opposition to standard public health measures like masking and social distancing and school closures and experts who are more in the mainstream say that those measures saved a lot of lives, and that, if we have another pandemic, they are very worried about how this Trump team will respond.”

She added, “[W]e have to understand kind of where Bhattacharya is coming from, he is a medical economist. So, he’s not thinking in a public health frame of let’s save as many lives as possible or let’s stop the spread of the disease at all costs. He’s thinking about balancing the economy and other factors against public health imperatives.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/11/27/nyt-experts-worry-about-bhattacharya-he-opposed-school-closures-isnt-focused-on-stopping-spread-at-all-costs/

[The_Reader_David]

NYT: ‘Experts’ Worry About Bhattacharya, He Opposed School Closures, Isn’t Focused on Stopping Spread ‘At All Costs’

A one word answer to these "experts":  Sweden.

[rmc51]

I think that he should be a very good pick,
To the Democrats and the Left:



 

[mountaineer]

Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
I am honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump's nomination of me to be the next @NIH director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!
8:44 PM · Nov 26, 2024