NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID lockdowns
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National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a week of shake-ups in the Trump administration’s public health agencies.
For 28 days last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a director who had been confirmed by the Senate. But in less time than it took Susan Monarez to get approved, she was fired for not kowtowing to her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over vaccination policy.