Trump taps Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID lockdown, to be NIH director

Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick to lead the NIH, is known for arguing against lockdowns and for "herd immunity" to control the COVID-19 virus.
KQED

Stanford Doctor Tapped for Key Post by Trump Advocated for Letting COVID Spread

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice this week to lead the National Institutes of Health is a controversial Stanford researcher who was highly critical of the COVID-19 pandemic response, drawing ...
CNN

NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory. “This one ...
RealClearPolitics

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Honesty and Transparency Will Get Better Results Than Vaccine Mandates

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told Newsmax on Thursday night that he supports Florida's plan to end all vaccine mandates and researching concerns about vaccine side effects raised by HHS Secretary ...
The New York Times

Jay Bhattacharya

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...