If there’s a message in President-elect Trump’s Friday evening reveal of who he intends to appoint for key well being care positions in his administration, it’s this:
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention are in large hassle. The Meals and Drug Administration is perhaps OK.
After all, not one of the picks, from the presumptive Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on down, have articulated what they intend to do.
However whereas the FDA decide of Marty Makary appears maybe the least prone to attempt to upend the established order, the presumptive CDC director, Dave Weldon, has been a persistent skeptic concerning the security of some vaccinations. That’s worrisome for an company whose most historic victories have come via using vaccines.
On the CDC, it appears RFK Jr. acquired what he wished. On the FDA, the selection appears extra the results of a negotiation between RFK Jr.’s push for radical change and a practical want amongst others in Trump’ s circle to not tank the market in biotech and pharmaceutical shares.
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