Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

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. But herd immunity would have been a disastrous way to deal with the virus.

President elect Donald Trump nominated health policy researcher Jay Bhattacharya to head the US National Institutes of Health, the sprawling agency that oversees close to $50 billion in biomedical research spending.

President-elect Donald Trump selects Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of lockdowns and vaccine mandates, as the next director of the NIH.

The Stanford University physician and economist, known for opposing Covid-19 lockdowns, has been tapped to lead the $47 billion biomedical research agency.

Billionaire Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr were among those who praised President-elect Donald Trump s nomination of Stanford University medical professor and economist Jay Bhattacharya as

President-elect Trump completed his health team by picking Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as his next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Trump, in the Tuesday announcement on TruthSocial,

Donald Trump's health team picks includes outspoken critics of the medical establishment and COVID-19 health measures