Controversial: Trump’s new appointments to head the FDA and the CDC

US President-elect Donald Trump, even before taking office, hastened to declare his appointments to the heads of the American health care system, and almost all of them are controversial. -FDA, the US Food and Drug Administration by firing hundreds of veteran employees in the organization, Trump announced new appointments on Friday To the head of the FDA and the head of the CDC, the Center for Epidemic Control.

The designated head of the FDA, Dr. Martin McCurry, is considered a professional appointment, but against the health system, the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies. The appointment of Dr. Dave Weldon to head the CDC, the Center for Epidemic Management, causes more discomfort.

Let’s start with the FDA: Dr. Martin McCurry comes from the health system. He is a surgeon at the leading John Hopkins University Hospital, and generally supports science. The medical and biomed community in the US even breathed a little relief, claiming that there were rumors of possible appointments Much more delusional. This is perhaps a reason for slight increases in the biomed (XBI) and pharma (DRG) indices on Friday.

But McCurry is similar to Trump’s other appointees in that he is a harsh critic of the health care system, wants to revolutionize it, and believes that pharmaceutical companies control regulators and medical services. Since the election, McCarey has expressed a lot of support for Kennedy, which in itself worries some of the sources, who fear that he will not stand in Kennedy’s way of dismantling the FDA.

“Chemicals that contaminate medicines and food”

During the Corona period, McCarey appeared frequently on Fox and other conservative networks where he expressed opposition to masks and supported rapid infections to create herd immunity even before the vaccine arrived. He did not object to the vaccine in the end. In fact, he claimed that the FDA delayed the vaccine on purpose, to harm Trump’s chances of being elected president in the 2020 elections.

Trump accompanied the appointment in a post on his social network Truth, in which he wrote: “The FDA has lost public trust, and has lost focus on its purpose as a regulator.” He noted that McCurry would work under Kennedy to “identify chemicals that contaminate our nation’s medicines and food.”

The new CDC lead: supports debunked theories

Trump also announced on Friday the selection of Dr. Dave Weldon, a physician and congressman from Florida, to lead the CDC, the Center for Disease Control, which is responsible for managing epidemics in the United States (whether epidemics of infectious origin, such as Corona, or very common diseases non-infectious, such as diabetes). This appointment is considered more disturbing. Weldon for years supported the view that a preservative used in vaccines causes autism, a theory that has been disproved. In 2007, he sponsored legislation aimed at removing responsibility for vaccine oversight from the CDC.

“By electing a vaccine-skeptic doctor, the president-elect underscores his commitment to radical change in health authorities,” said the title of the article in the New York Times. Trump said with the appointment, similar to what he said in McCarey’s appointment, that “Americans have lost faith in the CDC, which has engaged in censorship, manipulation of information and the spread of false information. The CDC must correct previous mistakes and focus on disease prevention.” It should be noted that this is not the common knowledge in the medical community regarding the functioning of the CDC, even if there are various types of criticism regarding the authority.

Dr. Janet Neshut, a physician who appears frequently on the Fox network, has been appointed Surgeon General, the head of public health in the United States and the administration’s leading spokesperson with the public on public health issues. Neshvat is the medical director of the CityMD clinic chain in New York, which is considered to have made a positive contribution to the accessibility of health services in the city, and she herself is an active doctor in the field of emergency and family medicine, although there were those who argued that she lacked a background in public health for the position.

Neschut is the sister of Julia Neschut who served as Trump’s homeland security adviser in his first administration. Julia Neschut is married to Michael Welch, whom Trump recently appointed as National Security Advisor for the next term.