He Rose To Fame As A Covid Contrarian, And Trump Wants Him To Be Nih Head

Kiera Butler, Mother Jones
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 7:52pm

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, a government agency composed of more than 18,000 employees with an annual budget of $47 billion. Bhattacharya, a professor of economics and health policy at Stanford University, has no leadership experience in either government or large organizations, but, like some other Trump nominees, he is outspoken about what he sees as the tyranny of public health restrictions and censorship on social media platforms.

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He Rose To Fame As A Covid Contrarian, And Trump Wants Him To Be Nih Head

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