Posted on 02/12/2025 2:52:17 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who was blackballed during the COVID pandemic for bucking scientific consensus, is “one the most exciting picks of all the Trump picks,” Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News.
In an exclusive interview Tuesday, Banks said Trump’s nominee to lead the NIH is the perfect man to turn the embattled agency around.
“President Trump has picked a game changer to lead the NIH, to clean it up,” he told Breitbart News. “I mean, talk about draining the swamp and disrupting Washington. Dr Bhattacharya is the type of figure that’s going to do that.”
Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, “was one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.” The document promoted “herd immunity,” the idea that people at low risk should live normally while building up immunity to COVID-19 through infection, and the principle that protection should focus instead on people at higher risk.
“I think the lockdowns were the single biggest public health mistake,” Bhattacharya said in March 2021.
Bhattacharya received overwhelming knee-jerk backlash from the bureaucracy and scientific community. Then-NIH director Dr. Francis Collins called the Great Barrington Declaration dangerous and “not mainstream science.”
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They will come after his nomination hard.
Considering Fauci was polluting this place for 38 years, it going to need a hazmat level clean up by President Trump and his team
A limited hangout wimp. He’ll have to significantly exceed my expectations to be worth anything.
However, he’s surely not as bad as the UN “OneHealth” expert who has been put in the top pandemic position at the WH.
It was despicable how Bhattacharya and another of his colleagues at Stanford were marginalized and ignored in early 2020 when they were saying reasonable and rational things about Covid.
I heard that some NIH employees are so infected with TDS they are targeting their MAGA voting friends.NIH should be cleaned out not cleaned up. That property is so valuable moveNIH to another state and gut it.
Any Federal agency or huge money draw should be moved out of MD. The state is tied to China corruption since Governor Hogan.
Actually, he is.
An authentic level headed academic medical researcher operating at the highest level.
Does he require the Senate’s approval to be confirmed?
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