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Trump Picks "Herd Immunity" Proponent Jay Bhattacharya to Lead National Institutes of Health

  • Bias Rating

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-9% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a 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 said in a statement announcing Bhattacharya's nomination.
48% : Trump's and Bhattacharya's views align when it comes to so-called herd immunity, which the president-elect repeatedly advocated for as a way to deal with COVID during the last year of his first term in office.
48% : In October 2020, when Trump himself contracted the coronavirus (and had access to best-in-class medical care), he still advocated for the idea.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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