President-elect Trump selected a critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates to lead the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is known for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 manifesto that advocated allowing COVID to spread in order to achieve herd immunity.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford-educated physician who gained prominence after questioning the efficacy of social distancing at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

President-elect Donald Trump picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor and noted critic of lockdown mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he intended to nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor known for his criticism of Covid lockdowns, to serve as the next director of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Michael Anderson, Critical Care Physician join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to some of Donald Trump’s choices for America’s most important public health agencies in the wake of Trump elevating a Dr.

On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, tapping an opponent of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates to lead the nation's top medical research agency.