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CBS News reports:
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Marty Makary Friday to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who opposed vaccine mandates and some other public health measures during the coronavirus pandemic. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University professor, is the latest in a string of Trump nominees who have declared the U.S. health system to be “broken” and in need of a shakeup.
Makary gained prominence on Fox News for his contrarian views during the COVID-19 pandemic. He questioned the need for masking and, though he was not opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine, Makary had concerns about vaccinations in young children. Makary was part of a vocal group of physicians calling for greater emphasis on herd immunity to stop the virus, or the idea that mass infections would quickly lead to population-level protection.
Read the full article. Anti-vaxxers are thrilled.
Herd immunity advocates, you will recall, claimed that if everybody would just get COVID, perhaps deliberately, then there would be no further need for vaccines. Such a position, of course, ignores that viruses quickly mutate.
Meet Dr. @MartyMakary just nominated by Trump as the new FDA Commissioner
“The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the covid pandemic has been the United States (& Cdn) govt.. Public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They lied to the American (& Cdn) ppl” pic.twitter.com/zZcwY47vB6
— Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) November 23, 2024
YES!!!!!! This is perfection! https://t.co/10dU7LHwdw
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 23, 2024
Marty Makary spread severe misinformation and refuses to own up to it.
On Saturday, Makary made several tweets alleging the CDC had lowered speech milestones to hide the harms of masks.
He was corrected within an hour by many people but went on Fox THE NEXT DAY to double down. pic.twitter.com/r4n1JGetMe
— Noah
(@Michigan_Noah) February 21, 2022
BREAKING: President-elect Trump has nominated Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and author who argued against pandemic lockdowns, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The role requires Senate confirmation. https://t.co/XvMUWkgH7s
— ABC News (@ABC) November 23, 2024
It appears the FDA no longer requires clinical trial data
Pfizer&Moderna’s new Omicron vax(tested in 8 mice) was authorized today for children, who are at the highest risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis
FDA bypassed their expert advisers
The most political FDA&CDC in U.S. history— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) October 13, 2022
President-elect Donald Trump nominates Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University who has made controversial claims about Covid, to be commissioner of the FDA. https://t.co/KPvJ4Q5Pc2
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 23, 2024
These are the people who are in control of your health in the Trump administration.
RFK Jr.
Mehmet Oz
Marty Makary
Dave Weldon
Janette Nesheiwat4 of the 5 of them are regulars on FOX NEWS.
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) November 23, 2024
Trump FDA pick Marty Makary wrongly predicted the pandemic would be over by April 2021.
Later in 2021, hundreds of thousands of people would die in the US from the Omicron wave, one of the worst of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/nmE7nzlpJE
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) November 23, 2024