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Showing posts with label Bhattacharya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bhattacharya. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Alarm as acting CDC director delays report showing Covid vaccine benefits
“This is definitely an escalation of this administration’s undermining of CDC science,” said Dr Fiona Havers, a former senior adviser on vaccine policy at the CDC. “The fact that they are now blocking this is extremely concerning.”…
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Trump’s NIH Pick Made a Big Mistake on Covid – Mother Jones
Bhattacharya and his supporters, including Musk, cannot acknowledge his big error, and they have been trying to erase it. And he is probably prepared to stick to this misleading CYA spin during his Senate confirmation hearing scheduled for Wednesday. There's nothing wrong about an academic expressing skepticism about the conventional wisdom. More troubling is when a supposed expert in health stats blunders significantly and cannot 'fess up to it. Such disingenuous defensiveness is not a good trait for the top appointment at the federal agency in charge of biomedical and public health research...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Trump’s health nominees want Covid vindication. Here's how their critique has aged. - POLITICO
Herd immunity "was a bad idea then and a bad idea now," said Georges Benjamin, director of the American Public Health Association. "You have a higher risk of complications from an acute [Covid] infection."
There's a misconception that achieving herd immunity was ever possible, according to Offit…
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