Kennedy…”has said that he would steer the agency (NIH) into a yearslong “break” from infectious disease research, focusing instead on chronic diseases.”

“Dr. Dave Weldon, Trump’s C.D.C. Pick, Was Not on Anyone’s Radar” By Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin Mueller “Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been off the political stage for more than 15 years.”“Yet over the years his

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“Here’s why bird flu fears are intensifying”

by Will Stone “But scientists are clear-eyed about the risk ahead. With reservoirs of virus persisting in dairy cattle, poultry and wild birds, there are ample opportunities for spillover into humans. Meanwhile, the virus is turning up in raw milk on store shelves. And flu season is raising the troubling prospect that bird flu could commingle with

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“Trump picks NIH critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency”

By Erin Schumaker “President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University physician and economist known for his controversial views during the Covid-19 pandemic, as director of the National Institutes of Health.”…….. “Bhattacharya was one of the main authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. The open letter, published in October 2020 and signed by thousands of public

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