Ron DeSantis rips NY Times, rallies behind Jay Bhattacharya NIH nod
Florida’s Governor is defending a doctor whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped The New York Times for criticisms of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. DeSantis charged that the paper is “peddling a false narrative to advance its partisan agenda” by misrepresenting the range of deaths from COVID that Bhattacharya predicted in 2020.
While Bhattacharya actually said anywhere from 20,000 to two million people could die in the pandemic, the Times stated that he predicted only 20,000 to 40,000 casualties, far short of the 1.3 million who perished from the virus.
“Anyone with a third-grade reading ability would understand this, yet the...
