Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, overseeing scientific research

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : He then went to Silicon Valley and became a close ally of investor Peter Thiel, who advised Trump during his first term and has championed Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the vice president-elect, across Vance's political career.
65% : "Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation's Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives," Trump said in a statement Tuesday night.
49% : Trump also announced Jim O'Neill, a Silicon Valley investor and former federal health official, as his selection to be HHS deputy secretary.
44% : Trump on Friday night announced a flurry of other top health-care appointments, including Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary as his planned FDA commissioner, former GOP congressman Dave Weldon as his planned CDC director and Janette Nesheiwat, a family and emergency medicine physician whom he tapped as the next U.S. surgeon general.
43% : "He will oversee all operations and improve Management, Transparency, and Accountability to, Make America Healthy Again," Trump said in a statement announcing O'Neill's selection.
31% : Bhattacharya emerged as a prominent critic of the federal government's coronavirus response and was among several academics who met with Trump in the Oval Office in August 2020, telling the then-president the coronavirus pandemic was not as severe as public health officials had warned.
21% : Trump had initially imposed lockdowns at the urging of his public health advisers, including Anthony S. Fauci, but came to regret the decision.

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