PUBLIC HEALTH POWER SHIFT: BIG CHANGES AT HHS, NIH & FDA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Public health shake ups continue in the wake of RFK Jr’s confirmation as Secretary of HHS. The FDA vaccine advisor’s most recent meeting was canceled unexpectedly, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, of Great Barrington Declaration fame, gets one step closer to confirmation as head of NIH, and Marty Makary is making waves as Trump’s pick for FDA lead.

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0:00.0	This week especially, we have RFK Jr., obviously, HHS secretary appointed, but this week there's a lot of other things going on.
0:07.9	So we saw the ASIP committee was postponed. Now the VIRPAC committee is also canceled.
0:13.8	This is Reuters meeting of U.S. FDA Vaccine Advisors, Canceles committee member said no really reason why when you go into that article, but it is canceled.
0:22.3	So we have ASA postponed, burback canceled, business as usual in the health space is changing.
0:27.1	And this week we have Dr. J. Batacharya.
0:29.4	He's starting his journey towards the confirmation as the head of United States National Institutes of Health.
0:35.2	Wow.
0:35.4	This is a gigantic.
0:36.8	This is where Francis Collins was. He has stepped down. Jay Batachari, obviously professor of Health. Wow. This is a gigantic, this is where Francis Collins was.
0:38.7	He has stepped down.
0:39.8	Jay Bajari, obviously professor of medicine, economics, and health policy research at
0:44.1	Stanford University, but also one of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration.
0:48.9	And what's interesting was that Great Barrington Declaration, as everyone knows, was warning
0:53.3	about the collateral damage
0:54.7	that the restrictions, the pandemic restrictions were going to cause. And remember, he,
1:00.7	J. Badsharia is a true American story because he was attacked viciously by the Biden administration
1:06.5	and those within the top heads of the agencies like Francis Collins. Here is the actual article when it happened.
1:12.7	Trump's NIH pick.
1:14.4	I'm sorry, this is Badacharya.
1:16.3	This is the article is heading up here.
1:17.9	Trump's NIH pick urges scientific dissent in Senate hearing remarks.
1:21.8	So this is what he's going to be talking about.
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