{"id":3868,"date":"2024-11-27T02:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenianews.me\/En\/trump-picks-covid-lockdown-skeptic-as-head-of-key-national-health-agency\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T02:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T02:26:32","slug":"trump-picks-covid-lockdown-skeptic-as-head-of-key-national-health-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenianews.me\/En\/trump-picks-covid-lockdown-skeptic-as-head-of-key-national-health-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks Covid lockdown skeptic as head of key national health agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGet our free Inside Washington email<\/p>\n<p>I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our\u00a0privacy policy<\/p>\n<p>The next director of the National Institutes of Health will be a doctor who argued for allowing young and healthy people to become infected with Covid-19 long before a vaccine was available and later fought against mandating vaccination against the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, currently a professor of health policy at Standard University and director of Stanford\u2019s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, to lead the National Institutes of Health, one of the world\u2019s foremost medical research entities and oversee its $47 billion in funding. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Trump said Bhattacharya would work with his Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. 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