Newly elected US President Donald Trump is making important appointments to his government. Some people of Indian origin have also found place in it. Trump Indian-origin physician and economist Dr. It has been decided to appoint Jay Bhattacharya as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Jay Bhattacharya will take charge of the country's premier medical research institute.
As director of the NIH, Bhattacharya will oversee 27 institutes. These organizations work to prepare vaccines and develop new drugs for epidemics.
Bhattacharya gave information about this by posting on X. Bhattacharya said-
I feel honored to be selected by President Donald Trump to be Director. We will reform America's scientific institutions so they can be trusted again and science can be better used to make America healthy again.
Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jay said – Corona should be allowed to spread Jay Bhattacharya was born in 1968 in Kolkata. He received an MD degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1997 and a PhD degree in economics in 2000.
Bhattacharya is one of the three main authors of the 'Great Barrington Manifesto'. This manifesto was issued in 2020 during the Corona period. That said, the virus should be allowed to spread among healthy people. By doing this, natural immunity can be developed against the virus.
The other two authors of this manifesto are Scott Atlas and Alex Azar. Atlas was an adviser to Trump during his first term. At the same time, Azar was the health secretary during the Trump administration. However, these authors were criticized a lot at the time.
Bhattacharya Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will work with Bhattacharya, 56, will work closely with Robert F Kennedy Jr. Trump appointed Kennedy Jr. as health secretary a few days ago.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy's nephew. His father, Robert F. Kennedy was the Attorney General. Kennedy is also the founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance, the world's largest clean water advocacy group.
Robert has thanked Trump for appointing Bhattacharya. Robert said-
I am very grateful to President Trump for this wonderful appointment. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to position NIH as an international model for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.
Trump recently handed over the responsibility of the Department of Health to Robert Kennedy Jr.
He came into the limelight for criticizing the government during Kovid-19 Bhattacharya came into the limelight for criticizing the government's policies during Covid-19. He opposed the government's decision to make masks and lockdown mandatory. He also opposed the government's policy of making vaccination compulsory.
He said that people are facing difficulties due to the vaccination policy of the government. People who have not been vaccinated are being prevented from going to the office. Because of this, the people of the country are losing faith in the health system.
His statements were criticized by many health experts, including the World Health Organization, but some in the Trump administration earlier supported Bhattacharya's statements.
Recently, Bhattacharya has left the X platform for an alternative site 'BlueSky', commenting on X on Scientists. He calls BlueSky 'his little echo chamber'.
Faced with restrictions on social media Bhattacharya also faced bans on social media due to his views. He was a prosecutor in a case in the Supreme Court. They alleged that federal officials had unfairly suppressed conservative views on social media in their efforts to combat misinformation. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Joe Biden administration.
Later, he was summoned to the company's headquarters to investigate how his views on social media were limited after Elon Musk bought Twitter.
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