{"id":17382,"date":"2024-11-27T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17382"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:26:41","slug":"how-will-trumps-covid-contrarians-handle-the-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17382","title":{"rendered":"How Will Trump\u2019s Covid Contrarians Handle the Next Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s selections to run the nation\u2019s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts.<\/p>\n

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President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation\u2019s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears<\/a> of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bhattacharya, a Stanford University medical economist and outspoken opponent of lockdowns, masking, school closures and other Covid-19 mitigation measures, and Mr. Trump\u2019s other health picks have one thing in common. They are all considered Covid contrarians whose views raise questions about how they would handle an infectious disease crisis.<\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s choice for health secretary, has said he wants the N.I.H. to focus on chronic disease and \u201cgive infectious disease a break for about eight years.\u201d Dr. Martin Makary, the president-elect\u2019s choice to run the Food and Drug Administration, incorrectly predicted<\/a> in 2021 that the nation was \u201cracing toward an extremely low level of infection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. David Weldon, a Republican former congressman who is Mr. Trump\u2019s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has espoused the debunked theory<\/a> that thimerosal, a mercury compound in certain vaccines, causes autism. As a congressman, he introduced legislation<\/a> that would strip the C.D.C. of its role in ensuring vaccine safety, saying the agency had a \u201cconflict of interest\u201d because it also promotes vaccination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And Dr. Mehmet Oz, the talk show host who has been picked by Mr. Trump to run Medicare and Medicaid, prodded officials<\/a> in the first Trump administration to give emergency authorization for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The F.D.A. later revoked the authorization when studies showed the drug carried risks<\/a>, including serious heart issues, to coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s selections to run the nation\u2019s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts.President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation\u2019s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease.Dr. Bhattacharya, a Stanford University medical economist and outspoken opponent of lockdowns, masking, school closures and other Covid-19 mitigation measures, and Mr. Trump\u2019s other health picks have one thing in common. They are all considered Covid contrarians whose views raise questions about how they would handle an infectious disease crisis.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s choice for health secretary, has said he wants the N.I.H. to focus on chronic disease and \u201cgive infectious disease a break for about eight years.\u201d Dr. Martin Makary, the president-elect\u2019s choice to run the Food and Drug Administration, incorrectly predicted in 2021 that the nation was \u201cracing toward an extremely low level of infection.\u201dDr. David Weldon, a Republican former congressman who is Mr. Trump\u2019s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has espoused the debunked theory that thimerosal, a mercury compound in certain vaccines, causes autism. As a congressman, he introduced legislation that would strip the C.D.C. of its role in ensuring vaccine safety, saying the agency had a \u201cconflict of interest\u201d because it also promotes vaccination.And Dr. Mehmet Oz, the talk show host who has been picked by Mr. Trump to run Medicare and Medicaid, prodded officials in the first Trump administration to give emergency authorization for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The F.D.A. later revoked the authorization when studies showed the drug carried risks, including serious heart issues, to coronavirus patients.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to focus on chronic diseases rather than infectious diseases as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesWe 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":17384,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17382","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\/17382","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=17382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17385,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions\/17385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}