By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-27 13:26:59 | Updated at 2024-11-27 15:56:20
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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and Covid policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health.
The NIH is the country's top public funder of medical research with a budget of some $47.3 billion.
Trump's choice was hailed as 'spectacular by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr says Covid lockdown critic as Trump NIH pick is 'spectacular'
As Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees the National Institutes of Health,
The NIH has 27 institutes and centers that conduct early stage research on everything from vaccines for emerging pandemic threats to targets for new drugs.
Just days before his nomination as HHS secretary, RFK Jr. said he would act quickly to fire 600 people at the NIH and replace them all with new hires.
The agency employs nearly 20,000 people.
Trump has now appointed Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health policy professor and doctor, as director of the NIH.
He was an outspoken critic of the U.S. government's Covid policies during the pandemic.
Kennedy said:
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Biden announces U.S. will join another round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday morning that the U.S. is joining Middle Eastern countries to again work towards a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
It comes just hours after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, ending 14 months of fighting between the Jewish State and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
‘Over the coming days, the United States will make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel, and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with the hostages released and an end to the war without Hamas in power,’ Biden wrote on X the day before Thanksgiving.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas terrorists operating out of Palestinian enclave of Gaza has gone on for more than a year despite repeated efforts from world allies to achieve an end to the war.
The Biden administration hopes the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel paves the way for a bigger deal before Donald Trump takes office in January.
One senior official told Politico: ‘No one has any idea what will happen after January 20, so I think the time is right. The combination of Biden leaving, Trump coming and the Lebanon peace agreement — this is a golden opportunity and we should not let it slip by.’
Lebanese people return to their homes after a ceasefire agreement with Israel
Trump taps Covid lockdown critic as head of National Institutes of Health
