Weeks into the Covid pandemic, a South African named Nick Hudson, who describes himself as an actuary, private equity investor, and amateur ornithologist, created an outfit called PANDA (short for Pandemics Data and Analytics) to advance the notion that the global reaction to Covid—lockdowns and mandates—was “ overwrought and damaging.”

Trump’s pick for the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, was right about COVID. And when the health care establishment went after him, he didn't buckle.

The wrangling over an extension of government dominates the agenda for both the House and the Senate this week.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for the National Institutes of Health director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, told senators Wednesday during his confirmation hearing that he fully supports developing alternatives to the use of aborted fetal products in developing vaccines and therapeutics.