{"id":7546,"date":"2024-11-28T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2024-11-28T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T20:08:38","slug":"stanford-doctor-tapped-for-key-post-by-trump-advocated-for-letting-covid-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/stanford-doctor-tapped-for-key-post-by-trump-advocated-for-letting-covid-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Doctor Tapped for Key Post by Trump Advocated for Letting COVID Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice this week to lead the National Institutes of Health is a controversial Stanford researcher who was highly critical of the COVID-19 pandemic response, drawing pushback from the medical community and some still suffering from the long-term effects of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, was one of three co-authors of a 2020 letter that challenged policies like lockdowns and mask mandates, and called for speeding up herd immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice this week to lead the National Institutes of Health is a controversial Stanford researcher who was highly critical of the COVID-19 pandemic response, drawing pushback from the medical community and some still suffering from the long-term effects of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, was one of three co-authors of a 2020 letter that challenged policies like lockdowns and mask mandates, and called for speeding up herd immunity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/stanford-doctor-tapped-for-key-post-by-trump-advocated-for-letting-covid-spread\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stanford Doctor Tapped for Key Post by Trump Advocated for Letting COVID Spread<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,35,11,97,309,8,14,1252,51],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-long-covid","tag-pandemic-response","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}