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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy

Trump Transition - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team of medical contrarians and health care critics to fulfill an agenda aimed at remaking how the federal government oversees medicines, health programs and nutrition.

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. He is the latest in a string of Trump nominees who were critics of COVID-19 health measures.

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