Bhattacharya’s appointment is a clear signal that the ruling class aims to demolish the last remnants of public health still standing after five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading medical research agency.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Kolkata-born and Stanford-trained physician Jay Bhattacharya, a Covid lockdown contrarian, to head the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). With a budget of nearly $50 billion spread across 27 centers and facilities of different biomedical disciplines,