President-elect Trump has picked Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins’s surgeon who has espoused contrarian views about the COVID-19 pandemic, to lead the Federal Drug Administration. Makary is a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University and an author.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a critic of COVID-19 health measures to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

Martin A. Makary, MD, of Johns Hopkins University, a critic of vaccination schedules and COVID-19 measures promulgated by public health leaders, has been named by President-Elect Donald Trump as his nominee for commissioner of the FDA.