{"id":17131,"date":"2024-11-23T23:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2024-11-24T01:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T01:24:20","slug":"trumps-choices-for-health-agencies-suggest-a-shake-up-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17131","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Choices for Health Agencies Suggest a Shake-Up Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The picks to oversee public health have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream.<\/p>\n

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A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term Florida congressman. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.<\/p>\n

President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete \u2014 and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines. Together, they are a clear repudiation of business as usual.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they\u2019re saying when they make these appointments is that we don\u2019t trust the people who are there,\u201d said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. \u201cI\u2019m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,\u201d Dr. Offit said.<\/p>\n

But other experts who expressed concerns about anti-vaccine views at the helms of the nation\u2019s health agencies said that some elements of the picks\u2019 unorthodox approaches were welcomed. After a pandemic that closed schools across the country and killed more than one million Americans, many people have lost faith in science and medicine, surveys show<\/a>. And even some prominent public health experts were critical of the agencies\u2019 Covid missteps and muddled messaging on masks and testing.<\/p>\n

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The picks to oversee public health have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream.A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term Florida congressman. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete \u2014 and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus.Mr. Trump\u2019s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines. Together, they are a clear repudiation of business as usual.\u201cWhat they\u2019re saying when they make these appointments is that we don\u2019t trust the people who are there,\u201d said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. \u201cI\u2019m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,\u201d Dr. Offit said.But other experts who expressed concerns about anti-vaccine views at the helms of the nation\u2019s health agencies said that some elements of the picks\u2019 unorthodox approaches were welcomed. After a pandemic that closed schools across the country and killed more than one million Americans, many people have lost faith in science and medicine, surveys show. And even some prominent public health experts were critical of the agencies\u2019 Covid missteps and muddled messaging on masks and testing.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17133,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17134,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions\/17134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}