Former Planned Custal President Leena Wen provided solid admiration for two of Trump’s top health agencies head picks (Dr. Jay Batacharya and Dr. Marty McCurry) on the Washington Post on Tuesday.
Trump has appointed McCurry to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Bhatacharya. Both testified before the Senate as part of the confirmation process. we I said She was “stricken by how normal the candidates are.”
In contrast to newly created health and human services director Robert F. Kennedy Jr., she said she “refused to dismiss anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.” (Related: RFK Jr. brings new waves of voters to Republicans – can they protect them?)
“These candidates were based on the answers in fact and science,” she wrote. “They were familiar with what their agents did and how they had interesting ideas. [to] Please improve them. ”
She urged Democrats not to “reflexively” dismiss them and praised their “stellar qualifications.”
Both Wen’s doctors have been inconsistent with regard to community policy during the pandemic, earning the label “Covid Deniers.”
Wen pointed out an important role in the co-authoring of Bhattacharya The Great Barrington Declarationa paper signed by more than 40 doctors, epidemiologists and researchers argued, among other things, it focuses on protecting vulnerable populations rather than mass lockdowns to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic.
She also noted McCurry’s Wall Street Journal. op-ed In February 2021, he insisted that Covid will “have almost gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.” At the time, he wrote that low infection rates, coupled with vaccines, could help combat the virus. He said it was based on his predictions based on available data, similar to his observation that many people are likely to be infected, but not recorded.
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Wen admitted that Bhatacharya and McCurry were right to emphasize “infection-based immunity,” and that it was right to point out that mitigation efforts may have facilitated as damaging outcomes as the virus itself.
But she said it was wrong to advocate for accepting “mass infections” as a way to reach herd immunity before vaccines are readily available.
According to her LinkedIn page, Wen headed Planned Parenthood from November 2018 to July 2019. The organization forced her to leave due to internal disagreements, According to To the Washington Post. she Quote The “philosophical differences” with the planners of the New York Times were “philosophical differences” written for the organization’s board of directors and claimed in a letter obtained by the Times that he was obsessed with “a fierce, political abortion-first philosophy.” (Related: Wen Ouster plans parent-child relationship with heels)
She has a record of breaking from the left holding a heterodox view. admit RFK Jr.’s view on fluoride is, “It’s not as crazy as you think.”
