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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Who is Nicole Saphier, Trump’s new nominee for US surgeon general?

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Nicole Saphier attends Fox Nation's 2024 Patriot awards at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on 5 December 2024 in Greenvale, New York. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images

The new nominee for US surgeon general is an “effective communicator” who appears to be “mainstream enough” to pass confirmation before the US Senate, experts say.

But she has questioned routine childhood vaccines and other public health measures, and she is a progenitor of the “Make America healthy again” movement.

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