By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 19:01:40 | Updated at 2024-11-24 21:35:58
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Trump’s Choices for Health Agencies Suggest a Shake-Up Is Coming
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 24, 2024, 1:19 p.m. ET | Emily Anthes and Emily Baumgaertner Published Nov. 23, 2024Updated
Posted on 11/24/2024 10:56:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term Florida congressman. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete — and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus.
Mr. Trump’s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines. Together, they are a clear repudiation of business as usual.
“What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.
Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. “I’m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,” Dr. Offit said.
But other experts who expressed concerns about anti-vaccine views at the helms of the nation’s health agencies said that some elements of the picks’ unorthodox approaches were welcomed. After a pandemic that closed schools across the country and killed more than one million Americans, many people have lost faith in science and medicine, surveys show. And even some prominent public health experts were critical of the agencies’ Covid missteps and muddled messaging on masks and testing.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What genius.
2 posted on 11/24/2024 10:58:15 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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3 posted on 11/24/2024 10:59:12 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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