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The panelists at a conference cochemed last fall were invited to express their regrets – policies they had supported during the pandemic but had come to consider erroneous. Contact tracing is comfortable, said one. School fence, said another. The mandates of the vaccine said a third party.

When the Tour of Marty Makary came, the University Surgeon Johns Hopkins said: “I can’t think anything”, adding: “All the politics covers three to four years resembled a horror film that I was forced to watch.”

It was a characteristic response for Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to direct the Food and Drug Administration, which seems to be confirmed after a hearing of the Senate committee on Thursday. A decorated doctor and an impetuous criticism of many of his medical colleagues, Makary drew Trump’s attention during the pandemic with frequent apparitions in Fox News emissions such as “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, in which he exposed public health officials on their manipulation of Covid.

Many former FDA officials and scientists knowing the agency are optimistic about Makary – to some extent.

“He is a global class surgeon, and he has expertise in health policy,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology at Brown University and former Makary colleague at Johns Hopkins. “If you have pancreatic cancer, this is the person you want to operate on you. The university probably loses a lot of money so as not to have this work done. »»

His criticisms say that he has sometimes exaggerated the harmful harm’s misdeeds and underestimated the dangers of the virus, contributing to a pandemic story that has led many Americans to avoid gunshots and other practices intended to slow down transmission and reduce hospitalizations and deaths.

Should he take the reins of the FDA, passing from Gadfly to the head of an agency that regulates a fifth From the American economy, Makary is expected to engage in the thorny challenges of governance.

“Makary spent the pandemic delirium against the medical establishment as if he were a stranger, which was not,” said Jonathan Howard, New York neurologist and author of “We Want They Infected”, a book that criticizes Makary and other academics who opposed government policies. “Now it’s really the establishment. Everything that happens will be his responsibility. »»

During its confirmation audience, Makary ranged a lower tone, praising the professional FDA staff and promising to apply good science and common sense to the attack on chronic diseases in the United States, including by studying food additives and chemicals that could contribute to poor health.

“We need more humility in the medical establishment. You must be willing to develop your position as new data are coming, “he said. What makes a great doctor “is not what you know; It is your humility and your desire to learn, as you go by patients. »»

Colleagues have applauded the skills and intelligence of Makary as a surgeon and medical policy thinker. He contributed to a 2009 Surgery control list Supposed to have prevented thousands of errors and infections in operating rooms. He wrote a largely quoted 2016 article claiming that medical errors were the third cause of death in the United States, although some researchers said the statement was exaggerated. He also founded or was director of companies and told the hearing that a surgical technique he invented could possibly help heal diabetes.

Humility, however, was not the most obvious trait of Makary.

During the pandemic, he went to conservative publishers and media with controversial positions on public health policy. Some have proven to be clever, while others seem less premonitory with hindsight.

In December 2020, Makary challenged established scientific knowledge and declared that vaccination of 20% of the population would be sufficient to create “immunity from the herd”. In February 2021 Wall Street Journal PieceHe predicted that Covid would disappear practically in April because so many people would have become immune to infection or vaccination. The number of American deaths from COVID was 560,000 in April, with 650,000 additional deaths to come. In June 2021, he said that he had not been able to find proofs of a single death cocovid of a child before in good health. At that time, there have been many reports of such deaths, although children are much less likely than the elderly to suffer from a serious illness.

In February 2023, Makary testified at the Congress That the laboratory leak theory of Covid’s origin was “evidence”, an unequivocal declaration of a scientist discussing a scientifically unresolved problem.

Some public health officials have estimated that Makary attacked the authorities working in difficult circumstances for free.

“He went from a fairly reasonable person to say a lot of things that were exaggerated and useless,” said Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who was the coordinator of the COVVI-19 response of the White House under President Joe Biden.

And although almost all the people involved in the fight against Covid admitted that things are wrong during the pandemic, Jha said: “I never made sense of marty he did.”

Makary did not respond to requests for comments.

Makary accused the leaders of the Biden administration of having ignored the emerging evidence that COVVI anterior infection could be as effective or more effective against future infections as vaccination. Although he is probably right, said Nuzzo, his statements seemed to encourage people to be infected.

“It is reasonable to say that vaccination mandates were not the right approach,” she said. “But you can also understand that people were trying to blindly chase our way to the situation, and some people thought that vaccine mandates would be timely.”

In Johns Hopkins, for example, Nuzzo opposed a reminder mandate for the campus in 2022 but understood the final decision to demand it. School authorities were determined to bring students back to campus and feared that epidemics will get them again, she said.

“You can say that the laws on security belt is bad because they encroach on civil rights,” said Howard. “But a better thing to do would be to urge people to wear safety belts.”

Makary’s statements had “no grace,” he said. “They were people with an overwhelming virus, and he constantly accused them of lying.”

Several public health officials have been particularly upset by the way Makary has launched the sponsorships in the vaccine security program for Disease Control and Prevention. In a January 16, 2023, an appearance in Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Makary, said that the CDC had “tried to quickly minimize” the evidence of an increased risk of stroke among the Medicare beneficiaries who had obtained a cocovated booster. In fact, the CDC had detected a potential signal for additional features in a database, and in the interest of transparency, it published this information, said Nuzzo. A more in -depth investigation revealed that there was no real risk.

During the hearing on Thursday, the opinions in Makary pandemic were mainly unexplored, but the Democratic and Republican senators sounded several times for its point of view on the drug against abortion, mifepristone, which has become easier to use without direct medical supervision due to a decision by the FDA in 2021. Many Republicans want to reverse the FDA decision; Democrats say there are evidence oars that support the safety of the drug when they are taken by a woman at home.

Makary tried to satisfy both parties. He told Senator Maggie Hassan (DN.H.) that he would be led by science and had no preconceived ideas on the security of Mifepristone. Questioned by the Republican Bill Cassidy, president of the health, education, labor and pensions committee and an enemy of abortion, he said that he would examine continuous data on the drug assessment system of the FDA, which brings together reports on the ground.

The question of the abortion pill illustrates the type of dilemmas that Makary will face the FDA, said Jha.

“He will have to decide if he listens to scientists from his administration, or his boss, who often does not agree with science,” he said. “He is an intelligent and thoughtful guy and I hope he will meet through.”

“The two most important organs of the FDA commissioner are the brain and the spine,” said former assistant commissioner of the FDA, Joshua Sharfstein. “The vertebral column because there is an attempt at influence from many directions, not only political but also commercial and several advocacy communities. It is very important to defend the success of the agency. »»

We would like to speak with the current and former staff of the Ministry of Health and Social Services or its component agencies who believe that the public should understand the impact of what is happening in the Federal Bureaucracy of Health. Please send a KFF Health News message on signal to (415) 519-8778 or Contact here.

The panelists at a conference cochemed last fall were invited to express their regrets – policies they had supported during the pandemic but had come to consider erroneous. Contact tracing is comfortable, said one. School fence, said another. The mandates of the vaccine said a third party.

When the Tour of Marty Makary came, the University Surgeon Johns Hopkins said: “I can’t think anything”, adding: “All the politics covers three to four years resembled a horror film that I was forced to watch.”

It was a characteristic response for Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to direct the Food and Drug Administration, which seems to be confirmed after a hearing of the Senate committee on Thursday. A decorated doctor and an impetuous criticism of many of his medical colleagues, Makary drew Trump’s attention during the pandemic with frequent apparitions in Fox News emissions such as “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, in which he exposed public health officials on their manipulation of Covid.

Many former FDA officials and scientists knowing the agency are optimistic about Makary – to some extent.

“He is a global class surgeon, and he has expertise in health policy,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology at Brown University and former Makary colleague at Johns Hopkins. “If you have pancreatic cancer, this is the person you want to operate on you. The university probably loses a lot of money so as not to have this work done. »»

His criticisms say that he has sometimes exaggerated the harmful harm’s misdeeds and underestimated the dangers of the virus, contributing to a pandemic story that has led many Americans to avoid gunshots and other practices intended to slow down transmission and reduce hospitalizations and deaths.

Should he take the reins of the FDA, passing from Gadfly to the head of an agency that regulates a fifth From the American economy, Makary is expected to engage in the thorny challenges of governance.

“Makary spent the pandemic delirium against the medical establishment as if he were a stranger, which was not,” said Jonathan Howard, New York neurologist and author of “We Want They Infected”, a book that criticizes Makary and other academics who opposed government policies. “Now it’s really the establishment. Everything that happens will be his responsibility. »»

During its confirmation audience, Makary ranged a lower tone, praising the professional FDA staff and promising to apply good science and common sense to the attack on chronic diseases in the United States, including by studying food additives and chemicals that could contribute to poor health.

“We need more humility in the medical establishment. You must be willing to develop your position as new data are coming, “he said. What makes a great doctor “is not what you know; It is your humility and your desire to learn, as you go by patients. »»

Colleagues have applauded the skills and intelligence of Makary as a surgeon and medical policy thinker. He contributed to a 2009 Surgery control list Supposed to have prevented thousands of errors and infections in operating rooms. He wrote a largely quoted 2016 article claiming that medical errors were the third cause of death in the United States, although some researchers said the statement was exaggerated. He also founded or was director of companies and told the hearing that a surgical technique he invented could possibly help heal diabetes.

Humility, however, was not the most obvious trait of Makary.

During the pandemic, he went to conservative publishers and media with controversial positions on public health policy. Some have proven to be clever, while others seem less premonitory with hindsight.

In December 2020, Makary challenged established scientific knowledge and declared that vaccination of 20% of the population would be sufficient to create “immunity from the herd”. In February 2021 Wall Street Journal PieceHe predicted that Covid would disappear practically in April because so many people would have become immune to infection or vaccination. The number of American deaths from COVID was 560,000 in April, with 650,000 additional deaths to come. In June 2021, he said that he had not been able to find proofs of a single death cocovid of a child before in good health. At that time, there have been many reports of such deaths, although children are much less likely than the elderly to suffer from a serious illness.

In February 2023, Makary testified at the Congress That the laboratory leak theory of Covid’s origin was “evidence”, an unequivocal declaration of a scientist discussing a scientifically unresolved problem.

Some public health officials have estimated that Makary attacked the authorities working in difficult circumstances for free.

“He went from a fairly reasonable person to say a lot of things that were exaggerated and useless,” said Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who was the coordinator of the COVVI-19 response of the White House under President Joe Biden.

And although almost all the people involved in the fight against Covid admitted that things are wrong during the pandemic, Jha said: “I never made sense of marty he did.”

Makary did not respond to requests for comments.

Makary accused the leaders of the Biden administration of having ignored the emerging evidence that COVVI anterior infection could be as effective or more effective against future infections as vaccination. Although he is probably right, said Nuzzo, his statements seemed to encourage people to be infected.

“It is reasonable to say that vaccination mandates were not the right approach,” she said. “But you can also understand that people were trying to blindly chase our way to the situation, and some people thought that vaccine mandates would be timely.”

In Johns Hopkins, for example, Nuzzo opposed a reminder mandate for the campus in 2022 but understood the final decision to demand it. School authorities were determined to bring students back to campus and feared that epidemics will get them again, she said.

“You can say that the laws on security belt is bad because they encroach on civil rights,” said Howard. “But a better thing to do would be to urge people to wear safety belts.”

Makary’s statements had “no grace,” he said. “They were people with an overwhelming virus, and he constantly accused them of lying.”

Several public health officials have been particularly upset by the way Makary has launched the sponsorships in the vaccine security program for Disease Control and Prevention. In a January 16, 2023, an appearance in Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Makary, said that the CDC had “tried to quickly minimize” the evidence of an increased risk of stroke among the Medicare beneficiaries who had obtained a cocovated booster. In fact, the CDC had detected a potential signal for additional features in a database, and in the interest of transparency, it published this information, said Nuzzo. A more in -depth investigation revealed that there was no real risk.

During the hearing on Thursday, the opinions in Makary pandemic were mainly unexplored, but the Democratic and Republican senators sounded several times for its point of view on the drug against abortion, mifepristone, which has become easier to use without direct medical supervision due to a decision by the FDA in 2021. Many Republicans want to reverse the FDA decision; Democrats say there are evidence oars that support the safety of the drug when they are taken by a woman at home.

Makary tried to satisfy both parties. He told Senator Maggie Hassan (DN.H.) that he would be led by science and had no preconceived ideas on the security of Mifepristone. Questioned by the Republican Bill Cassidy, president of the health, education, labor and pensions committee and an enemy of abortion, he said that he would examine continuous data on the drug assessment system of the FDA, which brings together reports on the ground.

The question of the abortion pill illustrates the type of dilemmas that Makary will face the FDA, said Jha.

“He will have to decide if he listens to scientists from his administration, or his boss, who often does not agree with science,” he said. “He is an intelligent and thoughtful guy and I hope he will meet through.”

“The two most important organs of the FDA commissioner are the brain and the spine,” said former assistant commissioner of the FDA, Joshua Sharfstein. “The vertebral column because there is an attempt at influence from many directions, not only political but also commercial and several advocacy communities. It is very important to defend the success of the agency. »»

We would like to speak with the current and former staff of the Ministry of Health and Social Services or its component agencies who believe that the public should understand the impact of what is happening in the Federal Bureaucracy of Health. Please send a KFF Health News message on signal to (415) 519-8778 or Contact here.

The panelists at a conference cochemed last fall were invited to express their regrets – policies they had supported during the pandemic but had come to consider erroneous. Contact tracing is comfortable, said one. School fence, said another. The mandates of the vaccine said a third party.

When the Tour of Marty Makary came, the University Surgeon Johns Hopkins said: “I can’t think anything”, adding: “All the politics covers three to four years resembled a horror film that I was forced to watch.”

It was a characteristic response for Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to direct the Food and Drug Administration, which seems to be confirmed after a hearing of the Senate committee on Thursday. A decorated doctor and an impetuous criticism of many of his medical colleagues, Makary drew Trump’s attention during the pandemic with frequent apparitions in Fox News emissions such as “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, in which he exposed public health officials on their manipulation of Covid.

Many former FDA officials and scientists knowing the agency are optimistic about Makary – to some extent.

“He is a global class surgeon, and he has expertise in health policy,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology at Brown University and former Makary colleague at Johns Hopkins. “If you have pancreatic cancer, this is the person you want to operate on you. The university probably loses a lot of money so as not to have this work done. »»

His criticisms say that he has sometimes exaggerated the harmful harm’s misdeeds and underestimated the dangers of the virus, contributing to a pandemic story that has led many Americans to avoid gunshots and other practices intended to slow down transmission and reduce hospitalizations and deaths.

Should he take the reins of the FDA, passing from Gadfly to the head of an agency that regulates a fifth From the American economy, Makary is expected to engage in the thorny challenges of governance.

“Makary spent the pandemic delirium against the medical establishment as if he were a stranger, which was not,” said Jonathan Howard, New York neurologist and author of “We Want They Infected”, a book that criticizes Makary and other academics who opposed government policies. “Now it’s really the establishment. Everything that happens will be his responsibility. »»

During its confirmation audience, Makary ranged a lower tone, praising the professional FDA staff and promising to apply good science and common sense to the attack on chronic diseases in the United States, including by studying food additives and chemicals that could contribute to poor health.

“We need more humility in the medical establishment. You must be willing to develop your position as new data are coming, “he said. What makes a great doctor “is not what you know; It is your humility and your desire to learn, as you go by patients. »»

Colleagues have applauded the skills and intelligence of Makary as a surgeon and medical policy thinker. He contributed to a 2009 Surgery control list Supposed to have prevented thousands of errors and infections in operating rooms. He wrote a largely quoted 2016 article claiming that medical errors were the third cause of death in the United States, although some researchers said the statement was exaggerated. He also founded or was director of companies and told the hearing that a surgical technique he invented could possibly help heal diabetes.

Humility, however, was not the most obvious trait of Makary.

During the pandemic, he went to conservative publishers and media with controversial positions on public health policy. Some have proven to be clever, while others seem less premonitory with hindsight.

In December 2020, Makary challenged established scientific knowledge and declared that vaccination of 20% of the population would be sufficient to create “immunity from the herd”. In February 2021 Wall Street Journal PieceHe predicted that Covid would disappear practically in April because so many people would have become immune to infection or vaccination. The number of American deaths from COVID was 560,000 in April, with 650,000 additional deaths to come. In June 2021, he said that he had not been able to find proofs of a single death cocovid of a child before in good health. At that time, there have been many reports of such deaths, although children are much less likely than the elderly to suffer from a serious illness.

In February 2023, Makary testified at the Congress That the laboratory leak theory of Covid’s origin was “evidence”, an unequivocal declaration of a scientist discussing a scientifically unresolved problem.

Some public health officials have estimated that Makary attacked the authorities working in difficult circumstances for free.

“He went from a fairly reasonable person to say a lot of things that were exaggerated and useless,” said Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who was the coordinator of the COVVI-19 response of the White House under President Joe Biden.

And although almost all the people involved in the fight against Covid admitted that things are wrong during the pandemic, Jha said: “I never made sense of marty he did.”

Makary did not respond to requests for comments.

Makary accused the leaders of the Biden administration of having ignored the emerging evidence that COVVI anterior infection could be as effective or more effective against future infections as vaccination. Although he is probably right, said Nuzzo, his statements seemed to encourage people to be infected.

“It is reasonable to say that vaccination mandates were not the right approach,” she said. “But you can also understand that people were trying to blindly chase our way to the situation, and some people thought that vaccine mandates would be timely.”

In Johns Hopkins, for example, Nuzzo opposed a reminder mandate for the campus in 2022 but understood the final decision to demand it. School authorities were determined to bring students back to campus and feared that epidemics will get them again, she said.

“You can say that the laws on security belt is bad because they encroach on civil rights,” said Howard. “But a better thing to do would be to urge people to wear safety belts.”

Makary’s statements had “no grace,” he said. “They were people with an overwhelming virus, and he constantly accused them of lying.”

Several public health officials have been particularly upset by the way Makary has launched the sponsorships in the vaccine security program for Disease Control and Prevention. In a January 16, 2023, an appearance in Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Makary, said that the CDC had “tried to quickly minimize” the evidence of an increased risk of stroke among the Medicare beneficiaries who had obtained a cocovated booster. In fact, the CDC had detected a potential signal for additional features in a database, and in the interest of transparency, it published this information, said Nuzzo. A more in -depth investigation revealed that there was no real risk.

During the hearing on Thursday, the opinions in Makary pandemic were mainly unexplored, but the Democratic and Republican senators sounded several times for its point of view on the drug against abortion, mifepristone, which has become easier to use without direct medical supervision due to a decision by the FDA in 2021. Many Republicans want to reverse the FDA decision; Democrats say there are evidence oars that support the safety of the drug when they are taken by a woman at home.

Makary tried to satisfy both parties. He told Senator Maggie Hassan (DN.H.) that he would be led by science and had no preconceived ideas on the security of Mifepristone. Questioned by the Republican Bill Cassidy, president of the health, education, labor and pensions committee and an enemy of abortion, he said that he would examine continuous data on the drug assessment system of the FDA, which brings together reports on the ground.

The question of the abortion pill illustrates the type of dilemmas that Makary will face the FDA, said Jha.

“He will have to decide if he listens to scientists from his administration, or his boss, who often does not agree with science,” he said. “He is an intelligent and thoughtful guy and I hope he will meet through.”

“The two most important organs of the FDA commissioner are the brain and the spine,” said former assistant commissioner of the FDA, Joshua Sharfstein. “The vertebral column because there is an attempt at influence from many directions, not only political but also commercial and several advocacy communities. It is very important to defend the success of the agency. »»

We would like to speak with the current and former staff of the Ministry of Health and Social Services or its component agencies who believe that the public should understand the impact of what is happening in the Federal Bureaucracy of Health. Please send a KFF Health News message on signal to (415) 519-8778 or Contact here.