This headline over the weekend made us cheer:

Along with us at Unleash Prosperity, Dr. Bhattacharya was a leading voice of reason from the beginning of the COVID pandemic, urging caution of school and business closures and doing the basic science via serosurveys to try to calculate how widely the virus had spread in the months and, by implications, more accurately determine its severity.

He went on to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration calling for a targeted protection approach, which then-NIH director Francis Collins dismissed as “fringe epidemiologists” and directed a “devastating takedown” via a cabal of so-called experts, the media, and after Biden was elected, an official censorship regime.

Jay co-authored a key amicus brief that helped defeat Biden’s vaccine mandates at the Supreme Court and is a plaintiff in ongoing First Amendment litigation. And he has been kind enough to frequently review and comment on our own COVID analysis here at Unleash.

One of the greatest risks to the health of Americans and all people is the risk of more lockdowns to combat viruses and climate change. Our study with Scott Atlas and other leading scientists called “Lessons Learned” chronicled the extreme negative effects of the pandemic response.

Jay gets this as well as anyone. We can think of nobody better to fix the NIH.