US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a leading Covid lockdown sceptic Jay Bhattacharya to be the next director of a key US public health agency.
Trump said he had selected the Stanford University-trained physician and economist to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest government-funded biomedical research entity.
Bhattacharya became the face during the pandemic of a fiercely disputed open letter – known as the Great Barrington Declaration – that opposed widespread lockdowns.
Greenwald: Stanford’s @DrJBhattacharya was one of the most highly credentialed experts to contest COVID orthodoxies: including the harms of lockdowns, mask efficacy, and dangers to young people. For it, he was censored by Big Tech and widely maligned. Now, he’s running Fauci’s NIH


