Prognosis

Trump Picks Stanford Critic of Covid Lockdowns to Head NIH

  • Nominates health economist and doctor Jay Bhattacharya
  • Bhattacharya helped propose 2020 Covid lockdown alternative
Jay Bhattacharya

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President elect Donald Trump nominated health policy researcher Jay Bhattacharya to head the US National Institutes of Health, the sprawling agency that oversees close to $50 billion in biomedical research spending.

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