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TopicJay Bhattacharya

Topic: Jay Bhattacharya

Who is Kolkata-born Jay Bhattacharya, new acting chief of US medical body?

Jay Bhattacharya is a health economist and was a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford Medicine.

US President-elect picks Indian-American scientist Jay Bhattacharya to head health institute

Bhattacharya is the first Indian-American to be nominated by Trump for a high-ranking position.“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard", said Trump.

Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya is Fox regular, anti-lockdown. Twitter is his new foe

Jay Bhattacharya continues to advocate for herd immunity on Covid, despite his much-touted Swedish model resulting in an unnatural number of deaths.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.