President-elect Donald Trump has nearly completed his nominations for Cabinet and key government roles in his next administration — but the battle is hardly over.
On Tuesday evening, he nominated Jay Bhattacharya, a physician who during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic argued against lockdown measures, to be director of the National Institutes of Health. This comes after Trump nominated Marty Makary, who once said that only 20 percent of Americans needed to receive a Covid-19 vaccine for the US to reach “herd immunity,” to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Trump also nominated Glen Weldon, a former Florida congressman who had promoted the debunked theory that a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines causes autism, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
