{"id":131498,"date":"2024-11-29T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131498"},"modified":"2024-11-29T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:54:54","slug":"stanford-doctor-tapped-for-key-post-by-trump-advocated-for-letting-covid-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131498","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Doctor Tapped for Key Post by Trump Advocated for Letting COVID Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> 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<p>The so-called Great Barrington Declaration, which was written before the widespread availability of a vaccine, argued that measures should be taken to protect those who were most vulnerable to dying of COVID-19 but that others \u201cshould immediately be allowed to resume life as normal.\u201d Allowing the virus to spread among younger, healthier people would help drive up natural immunity and \u201cminimize mortality and social harm,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy was brought to the attention of then-President Trump by his pandemic advisor Dr. Scott Atlas \u2014 a Stanford colleague of Bhattacharya and Hoover Institution fellow \u2014 but it was swiftly excoriated by the scientific community. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dismissed it as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/dr-fauci-criticizes-concept-of-herd-immunity\">total nonsense<\/a>,\u201d and many physicians, scientists and other experts said the \u201cfringe\u201d approach was unethical and would endanger millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearing from researchers who were pushing ideas for how a health department should be responding, when they themselves were not responding or seeing patients \u2014 to me, I was like, you guys have major gaps in what expertise you\u2019re bringing to the kind of things you\u2019re putting forward,\u201d said Dr. Abraar Karaan, a Stanford infectious-diseases physician who helped lead Massachusetts\u2019 COVID response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin='anonymous' src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12016188\/stanford-doctor-tapped-for-key-post-by-trump-advocated-for-letting-covid-spread\">Source link <\/a><\/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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131498\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}