Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to become the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to the 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 in a statement announcing the new appointment. They will put in a lot of effort to “make America healthy again.”
According to NPR, Bhattacharya, a health researcher at Stanford University, is well-known for opposing the lockdown during the US COVID-19 outbreak.
His co-authorship of the “Great Barrington Declaration” expressed his forthright opposition to the mass lockdowns and called for targeted protection for those who were most in need.
