Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And so they just assume the worst.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
um and they they treated it like a military i mean like a a lockdown of the entire society that's not in normal public health plans normal health plans are it looks like the great barrington declaration it says protect vulnerable people and don't disrupt society don't fear monger maybe if you have a bioweapon attack you would you react that way i just i don't know i don't i don't have classified clearance i don't have any direct visibility but it was a extremely unusual thing if you think about it as just a public health intervention
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
So that one, I read that. That's Jeffrey Tucker's article. It's interesting. So it's based on a CDC webpage that they put out during the pandemic. It's not my article. It's Jeffrey Tucker's, right? And I think that the plans were about what to do in humanitarian settings. What they mean by that is at the border where you have refugee camps or something like that.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I don't think it was directly envisioned as a population-wide measure. I mean, there were places like in Australia, for instance, where they had camps, quarantine camps, like in, I think, Western Australia or Northern Territory or something. where they had quarantine camps.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And so especially if you had COVID or you exposed someone with COVID, you'd be driven to this camp and it looked like a prison facility where you stay there for two, three, four weeks or whatever it is until you were tested negative sufficient number of times. So it's not that public health in the West didn't do this.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
i don't think they were implanted in the united states i i'm not sure it was ambiguous i went back and read that web page after i saw jeffrey tucker's article and it's still unclear to me what the extent to which the plans were uh meant for the population at large rather than just just those uh those like refugee settings um as it is the direction Yeah.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, that is... I did not understand...
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
just this is a confession like i already mentioned i i confessed i was naive before the pandemic and i just i didn't understand that the history of governments essentially lying to the public manufacturing consent i mean i had read noam chomsky's manufacturing consent uh before and i just until i saw it happen in in before my eyes right during the pandemic on things that i knew for certain and yet the picture being painted was so different um
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I just didn't understand the mechanisms or the desire for governments to actually work in that way. And especially with the news media, normally I would have thought of them once upon a time as like a check or a balance on that. But in fact, they served as an amplifier for the powerful rather than a check on the powerful. Their conceit that they...
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Yeah, I mean, I think early in a pandemic where there is no treatment at all, you want to have the people who are treating the most COVID patients to give you their wisdom. They may be wrong about it. I mean, certainly everyone has something that was wrong early in the pandemic. That's normal to be expected. But they shouldn't be demonized for sharing their hypotheses.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And that's essentially what happened. Like, hydroxychloroquine is a, I mean, I took it when I was a medical student and when I was working in this, like, rural India to prevent malaria. If given the right dose, it's a safe drug. Why was it demonized early? I don't believe, based on the randomized trials I've eventually seen, that it works, but I didn't know that then.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Yeah. I mean, it's really a shocking inversion of how medicine should be, right? So the vaccine, which we didn't know the full set of side effects, is recommended to six-month-old babies for whom there's almost no benefit from it and a potential harm.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Whereas like relatively safe drugs, you know, people went and overdosed on ivermectin because they took the veterinary form of it because they couldn't go to a doctor, right? They wanted the drug. It was a relatively safe drug. It gave them the right dose. That whole... that whole craziness led patients to overdose on something that should be a safe drug. Because they couldn't get that.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Because it didn't. I actually looked up some of the, there's a paper that was published from like toxicology calls in like Oregon or something. People that they took, it's not that they took the veterinary medicine, dose by itself, they took a vast overdose. Now imagine if they had a physician to guide them, say, look, here's the right dose.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I'll find it to share. If I'm wrong, I'll definitely correct myself, but it'll be, I'll share.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Well, I think the principle I'm trying to get across, maybe I didn't do a good job explaining it, but the principle I'm trying to get across is that if you say that certain drugs are off limits and they're pretty safe, and people want the thing, It's like a harm reduction idea.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Essentially what you're saying is that you're going to make this forbidden, this drug is forbidden, and they'll find ways to get it, and it'll be unsafe because they're getting a version of it that's bad for you. Instead of that normal harm reduction idea, which is at the center of a lot of public health, they decided they were going to say, no, you can't have this drug at all.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
In fact, doctors will lose their license if they get the drug. That was a tremendous mistake. And as a result, I think there, I don't know how many cases, maybe I'm wrong about this, but I do remember seeing a paper, Drew, I'll send it to you if I can find it. But that principle of harm reduction was violated by public health when it came to ivermectin. It absolutely was.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Well, I mean, it was Francis Collins who wrote those words, which shocked me when I saw them. It was about a year after he wrote the email. It led to death threats on me and hit pieces and a whole bunch of slander. But I personally... personally, I couldn't forgive him. I think he, as a human being, made a mistake.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
From the point of view of NIH director, though, it was an abuse of power on his part. And it's a poor example for our scientific leaders to set that kind of example. When we disagree with each other, we disagree with each other with data and we change our minds when we are wrong. I mean, those are just normal things in science.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And for someone like him, and then of course it had this huge impact on the policy we picked. He got his way. He got the lockdowns he wanted. Schools closed in fall 2020. And I've seen him now essentially on an apology tour I just feel sad for him now.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
He goes around, what he says is that, well, I wasn't looking at all of the harm that these COVID lockdowns were doing to the poor, to the vulnerable children, the working class. And that's just, I mean, I don't understand how you, I mean, I like that he's confessing that he wasn't seeing that. That's a good thing for him to confess.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
but I don't like that he, he's still justifying saying that the Great Barrington Declaration was somehow wrong or, I mean, the whole purpose of the Great Barrington Declaration was to bring- Because they always go to, they always go to, you just wanted to let it rip, just let it rip.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
the solution to it is exactly what Vanessa just said, like have a broad range of viewpoints at the table, right? The idea of one small group of, I mean, he's a geneticist. He's not even an epidemiologist. He's a geneticist. Like why would he have the wisdom or expertise to know exactly how to organize all of society?
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
The principle, the basic principle that they used was that we should treat each other as biohazards, that all humans are simply biohazards and nothing else, right? And it was a predictable failure.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And I think if they had had the idea of allowing there to be other voices to speak, not devastating takedowns, but just engagement, critical engagement, that would have been, we would have had a much better outcome from the pandemic.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
How do you go back from that, Drew? Once you've made that tremendous error, And you know history's going to judge you on that, right? You were in charge of the NIH. You were in charge of the NIAID at the time when this crisis happened, and you made this tremendous mistake. Let's just go further. They may even have caused the pandemic, and that's what Bob Redfield says.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, supported the research that caused the pandemic. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I hope I'm never in that position, but if I am... Yeah, it's horrible. I would want to, I think I could just- It's horrible.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Yeah, I mean, I think that... Oh, go ahead, Vanessa.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Yeah, I think there's this woman named Catherine Maher, I think is her name. She was the head of the Wikimedia Foundation, which was fundraising for Wikipedia. And then later, actually, she went over to NPR. She's like the CEO or something of NPR. Perfect. Her attitude toward the truth is absolutely shocking. Her basic idea is that there are many, many things that people disagree on.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I actually did like one book of Foucault's, but maybe we can defend this later. He wrote this book called The Birth of the Clinic, which I read early as a medical student, which is worth… every doctor's, it makes, it's a little humbling actually. Like it makes, it puts the doctor's, he calls it the gaze, the doctor's vision of how they view patients.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
He puts it in this like historical context that I think every doctor should see. The broader view, I don't think I can defend, but that book, I think it'd be fun to have a little discussion over.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
If our goal is to find the truth, we're never going to be able to get things done. So what we really need is something else. Uh, and I mean, it's one thing for a scientist to have an attitude like that. They probably won't be very good scientists. Like they'll fail the scientists, like scientists, uh, succeed because they have a burning desire to know the truth.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, I think the idea that we could... essentially lock ourselves away, essentially treat humans as if they were like lab rats. If you want to keep lab rats from infecting each other, you just put them in cages far away from each other, right? That's the premise of the lockdown. It seems so intuitive that would work. The problem is like that intuition is just wrong.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Human societies are not like rat cages, right? Human societies are very complicated things. And the idea of isolation being healthy, you're absolutely right, Dr. Drew. I mean, it's crazy to think that isolation is healthy. It's one of the worst things you can do to human beings is to isolate them. And to have that as the epitome of good health policy for a full two years makes no sense.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
The public did not know that there were prominent scientists that disagreed with the lockdown policies.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
This is moving very fast.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
They wanted to create an illusion of consensus. This hurt a lot of people.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
They change their minds when they see new data or whatnot. It's another thing to have people who run our, uh, the main encyclopedia of human knowledge or a public radio station where essentially what she's arguing for is propaganda.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
It's a brilliant movie. It's absolutely brilliant. Even though I'm in it, it's a brilliant movie. So that's how good it is. Some of the people that you saw on the screen there were Canadian doctors that faced tremendous persecution because they spoke up against lockdowns. The persecution, it happened in the United States, but it was, I think, even worse against dissenters in Canada.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And the story it tells is absolutely... I mean, there's this one story where I was in tears about this boy, this teenage boy who had meningitis, bacterial meningitis. The parents took their kid to the ER. They couldn't be with him because of the COVID protocols. They sent him home.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
misdiagnosed, came back second time, again, I think sent home and eventually dies because they were so scared of COVID, they couldn't see bacterial meningitis, a preventable cause of death for a child. I mean, the emotional impact of the movie is incredible. And the basic argument that it was the censorship
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
and this sort of like creation of this like illusion of consensus that was really the root cause. It's a very powerful message. I encourage anyone listening to watch this movie.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
She's saying, look, we can show to you a facade that looks like the truth but isn't because it papers over the differences because we'll just exclude all the people that disagree. We'll slander all the people that disagree. I mean, I don't know if you've looked at My page in Wikipedia, it's pretty vandalized, and it's not anywhere close to an accurate representation of who I am or what I'm about.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
It's a caste system, Drew. Basically, there's a distinction between clean and unclean. And Trump voters are unclean. Unvaccinated are unclean. Unmasked are unclean. If you got COVID or were not careful, you're unclean. I mean... I think that the idea that public health contributed to that sort of social poison of this idea that they're unclean, that we must shun, it just shocks.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, this is a field that I've been in and worked in for decades, and the idea that we contributed to that just grieves me.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
If that's her version of what is true and what's false, like the importance of the truth, well, then, I mean, I don't want any part of it.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, that book by Michael Sanger is really interesting. He wrote it quite early, actually. You know, in February of 2020, Tony Fauci sent his deputy, Cliff Lane, to go visit China. It was part of this WHO junket, essentially, to China that said, and the idea was like, let's go see what the Chinese did.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
They came back home saying that what the Chinese did in January of 2020 with their draconian lockdowns had worked.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
And there's this chilling email from Cliff Lane to Maria Vankirkov, the chief epidemiologist of the WHO, where it said, what the Chinese did worked, but albeit at great cost, it's going to take more than just the people in this room to decide if we want to do the same or something very close to that effect.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
They were the top scientists, the top sort of public health officials of the world were absolutely fooled by the Chinese supposed conquering of COVID in 2020.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Okay, so this story is just, it's mind-boggling. I agree, it deserves more attention. HHS, commissioned a public relations firm named Force Marshberg in September of 2020, and then spent almost a billion dollars over the course of the Biden administration, essentially to propagandize the American public.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Their themes were very, the goal, the main goal was to tell people that if you don't get the COVID vaccine, you are unclean. And they fear-mongered about the risk to kids. They pushed forward false ideas about natural immunity where they said essentially denied its existence. They did everything they possibly could to –
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
tell you about the benefits of the vaccine, but never once told you about the potential harms, right? So for instance, the side effects of myocarditis for young men, as best I can tell, never came up once in any of their ads. And they put these ads into like the most vulnerable populations. It essentially was a billion dollars spent by the taxpayer to propagandize the American people.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Well, certainly if what the propaganda firm, the PR, sorry, PR firm did is- Well, no, no, no.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
If a pharmaceutical company had put those ads out, then they would be liable by the FDA for violating the kind of advertising restrictions the FDA places on pharma. Like they would have, for instance, had to have told the public about the potential for side effects, right?
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
They couldn't have just promised things that were beneficial about the product without also telling the harms, potential harms, right? It's really shocking. Essentially, the U.S. government became, during the pandemic, especially during the Biden administration, the most gung-ho cheerleader for the pharma industry in the history of the pharma industry. They've never had a better salespeople.
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That's right.
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It does seem like the election has sort of broken some of the spell. I mean, it's not that it's gone, but it's still, I think it has lost some of its power. You know, I think it's the boy you called Cried Wolf. Like if you are screaming bloody murder And the thing that you're screaming about doesn't happen. People aren't going to believe you so much as easily anymore.
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Maybe that's what's happening. And we'll see. I have to say I never thought that it was possible to scare the population in the way that the population was scared in 2020. I was surprised too. I thought we were more rational people than that, that we would look at data. I confess, I was very naive at the beginning of 2020.
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I thought that a data point or two would dispel fear and panic, especially if it's a real data point. And I turned out to be wrong about that. So I don't, I guess I'm a little gun shy about making any confident claims that we are beyond that now. Maybe. Yes, of course.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
Well, Vanessa's film that you're about to interview, Vanessa Dillon, her film is fantastic, actually. And it has Redfield, and he's such an interesting figure. I mean, in 2020, I thought he was... I didn't know him. Personally, I would watch him on TV, and he would say things where I just didn't agree with him.
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And I heard from Scott Atlas about his opinion of Redfield was not all that positive, I have to say. Then I met him in real life, and then I understood what happened. I think he was a hero, actually. I think he was a hero. I think he was trying to do his level best in a place where he was pushed aside by people like Tony Fauci.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
The head of the CDC did not actually design or control the pandemic response, which is a stunning thing to realize, but I think that's exactly what happened. And he did his level best to try to make his way, but it didn't work.
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Bombshell Report: CDC Plans Included COVID Isolation Camps, Vaccinated-Only Spaces & Vaccine Passports w/ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya & Vanessa Dylyn – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 423
I mean, I think you're right that parts of the intelligence community thought that it might be a bioweapon. Certainly, a lot of the intelligence community thought that it was at least an unintentional leak of something that's quite dangerous. And, of course, you can't tell directly from the sequence of a virus, the genetic sequence of a virus, exactly the physiological effects that will happen.
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If confirmed, I will establish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the NIH. Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of cover-up, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Thanks for having me, Vince. So good to talk to you again. It's been a few years.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
It's absolutely incredible. The team is incredible. I mean, I don't know what it's been like in the past, but I don't think I've ever heard of a more cohesive team of people leading Health and Human Services. We work together on almost everything. We managed to get things done that would take years of bureaucratic infighting to accomplish. We do them overnight.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And we're all aligned in the same direction. The focus is how do we improve the health of the American people? It's just amazing, Vince.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I was. It was interesting. This is October 2020. We wrote this, Vince, and it was the most common sense thing in the history of common sense things like protect the vulnerable and don't disrupt the lives of kids. Don't don't like harm them by keeping them out of school. We had now years of
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
of this opioid epidemic going on hundreds hundreds thousands of people dead as a result of it and it was the lockdowns that accelerated it kids that have been behind in school for two years or uh of learning uh i mean we're gonna we're we're still picking up the pieces i don't think people understood how powerful the agencies the health and human service agencies actually were until the pandemic
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And I mean, I was really concerned through the whole pandemic. I tried my very best to try to sound the alarm bells. It's amazing to me now that I have the chance to be inside and help reform these institutions so that this kind of thing never happens again.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I mean, I'm of two minds in a sense, Vince, because I love the NIH. I mean, it's supported my research for much of my career. And it has a really illustrious track record of advances in basic scientific knowledge that have resulted in better treatments for people. Its mission is absolutely noble, and I completely support it.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
But the idea is that we support research that advances the health and longevity of the American people. Like, who can be against that, right? That's exactly the mission. And in that sense, I absolutely love the NIH. But it has fallen on hard times. The American people don't really trust us anymore. And for good reason.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
What we did during the pandemic... Now I'm saying we as if I... During the pandemic, I didn't. But what the NIH did during the pandemic... It was, I mean, it didn't do the research that would have resolved some of the, like, for instance, like the research on whether the COVID vaccine stops you from getting and spreading COVID, right?
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Instead, the NIH kind of leaned in in ways to things that led to vaccines. mandates, it's led to like all kinds of things that were not particularly helpful. And worse, the NIH actually supported research that very likely caused the pandemic. Pandemic started in China, I believe, as a consequence of research that the Chinese government was supporting.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
But I'm sad to say that the NIH also supported that same research, this gain of function research that very likely led to the pandemic. So the place needs fundamental reform. The plus side is I found lots of great allies. There's a lot of great Americans here who want the best for the country and want to advance scientific knowledge.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
um there's a lot of people that are really you know they're they're uh they're they're sitting they're concerned because they might lose their jobs and all this um and i have sympathy for them too um but the place needs change and and i think uh It's been interesting. I've been here six weeks, and we've accomplished a lot. I've uncovered some things which I wish had never happened but did.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And we managed to make a lot. I'll tell you specifically about an incident at a high-security lab that I found as we went on the conversation. But it's been eye-opening, and it's been really useful to learn so many things. It's still a great institution, but it definitely needs some changes, and I'm working on that.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I think the NIH should be an entirely civilian organization. It should not be involved in any military kind of research at all. I think that there are other parts of the government that do that and do that better than us.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
The mixing of missions actually poisons the NIH's primary objective, which is to do research that improves the health and well-being of the American people, the longevity of the American people. On the question of this gain-of-function research, it's funny, Vince, because the same research, it was pitched as biodefense can also be used as, bio offense.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
It's the same research, the same exact research. And in fact, the civilian justification given to the research agenda that I think led to the pandemic was to prevent pandemics, to go out into the wild places, find all of the viruses and pathogens that live in places where humans generally don't go, bring them into labs and catalog them and ask how close are they in evolutionary space?
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
So they'll make the leap into human populations. And to do that, you have to essentially weaponize them, right? Make them more infectious in humans and ask how many mutations are needed before they become infectious in humans. You know, it's one of those things where it's a utopian agenda. It was sold as, well, we can prepare for all possible pandemics.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And so any possible pandemic in the future we'll know about before it happens, have countermeasures in place like vaccines and antivirals. That utopian agenda, I think, actually caused the pandemic because it's not possible to handle those agents so carefully that they never leak. It doesn't have to be malicious. It's just... human error.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And I don't know exactly what happened in Wuhan because the Chinese won't share their lab notebooks with us. But what I will say is that we should not be engaged in any of these kinds of utopian exercises that pose a risk to human health at the scale that we saw during the pandemic. It's just a catastrophic mistake that we ever engaged in this.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And whether it's a civilian justification or some biodefense justification, it makes no sense to me for the U.S. government or any other government to be engaged in it.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Vince, actually, the gain of function ban the president signed is expansive. It's actually everything I wanted. It essentially directs the U.S. government as well to not support this kind of dangerous research internally and externally. It mentions specifically some adversary nations.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I mean, it's amazing to me that we cooperate with the Chinese on this kind of research in the past because that's especially dangerous. But, you know, part of the reasoning why was that the biosafety standards were more lax in Wuhan than they were here.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And so we, some researchers, I keep saying we when it wasn't me, some researchers engaged in offshoring this kind of dangerous work because they knew it would be more difficult to do here. But it is also still done here, Vince. And I think it's dangerous no matter where it happens. And the president's order essentially says no more of it. It's a little tricky because gain of function –
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
as a tool is actually useful biologically for human health. So for instance, human insulin is produced at scale using a kind of gain of function work. You take E. coli and trick them into making human insulin. The problem is gain of function work that has the possibility of causing a pandemic. That's the work we should not be doing, no matter what it is, no matter where it is.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And I saw Secretary Kennedy say this, and I completely agree. We should be promoting an international treaty to get rid of this work. It helps nobody. It won't help us win battles with our adversaries. It just endangers human populations.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I mean, Vince, you're the soul of common sense on this. It's amazing that scientists have made decisions that don't have that kind of common sense. We should be focused on things that improve human health. That's our mission. Why are we focused on utopian schemes that have never been proven to advance human health and that have the risk of causing worldwide pandemics?
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I've not been made aware of any NIH connection to those labs. I have read reports about them from the outsides. But if I learn of things, I'll let the public know. I mean, I've been uncovering things left and right. And some of us have been shocking. We'll talk about one thing, I'm sure, right? And so you're about to ask me, I hope, in a second about it.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
But I haven't found anything yet about the Ukraine biolabs.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Oh, goodness. I've been scared by very little in the last five years, but this one really scared me. So about three weeks ago, I'd been three weeks in the job, I got a report from someone who was doing a routine inspection of this lab. The NIH runs one of the labs at Fort Detrick. They're military labs as well. The lab the NIH runs is a BSL-4 lab. BSL-4 means like the highest security level.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
You wear basically, you know, spacesuits and stuff. I mean, they're called whatever, biocontainment suits, if you're going to be working in a BSL-4 lab. And some of the stuff that are analyzed in those labs are just really nasty things. You know, Ebola, encephalitis viruses. I mean, they're just terrible if they get out in the human populations.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
And of course, they're not common in human populations. They're certainly not in the United States. The investigation uncovered a security incident that happened in March before I actually signed on, that a contractor had deliberately cut a hole in one of the bi-containment suits of a fellow worker. And let's go over a lover's bat as best I can tell. I'm not sure exactly what happened in any case.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
It's leaving aside the contractor and this act, which is, I mean, effectively an act of attempted murder, if not worse. The the the the the the fact that this had happened essentially been suppressed. And what I learned is that the safety culture of the lab was really bad.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
There were incidents going back into the Biden administration where essentially it was just like, you know, sort of waved aside as if it were just normal. This is not normal. You have people working with some of the most dangerous pathogens on the planet. doing experiments with them that could really, if it leaked, could spread out to the entire population, damage the whole population.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I mean, we saw what happened at Wuhan. And when I heard this, I mean, my blood was chilled. I thought, okay, you can't have a lax safety culture in a lab like this. You absolutely have to have 100% commitment to safety when you are engaged in experiments with these kinds of select agents. you know, like pathogens. And so I ordered that the lab essentially shut down until further notice.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
We secured those to select agents so that they're not going to pose any risk, the select agents being the viruses and stuff, and, you know, shut down all those experiments. I'm not going to reopen the lab until I'm satisfied that whoever is actually running it has safety as job one, two, and three. The experiments, some of them are likely important scientifically. And they're worth doing.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
At least some of them are. We're going to do a review of that as well. But no matter what the scientific benefit might be, it's not worth the risk of harming human populations at scale with a lax safety culture. And I won't reopen the lab until I'm satisfied that that has been regressed.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
There's an ongoing FBI investigation. So I don't I shouldn't step in front of it. And I actually have not been briefed yet on what they found on that specific on those specific questions. So but as far as I know, but you're you're satisfied. Yeah, as far as I know, no one got.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Yeah, I'm satisfied there's no threat to the public. I mean, I think that if there was a threat to the public, we would have known before I got into office. I mean, it's the kind of agents we're talking about, the kind of experiments we're talking about. So I'm satisfied that there was no threat to the public, no damage to the public, no risk to the public from this incident.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
But I'm not satisfied that we won't have a threat to the public in possible future incidents because it's the safety culture of a lab like this that determines what that risk actually is. In BSL-4 labs, there's no room for error. You cannot have any actions like this in a safety culture that waves its sides as it's normal. I mean, you can't have people like that running the lab.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
You know, it's interesting because this job normally is bipartisan. Everyone loves you because you're doing experiments that advance human health. You go around the country giving talks, bragging about the scientific advances that actually. So, you know, in normal times, it would be a really fun job.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I landed in this job in a setting where one of the most prominent people in this institution had to be pardoned by the outgoing president. I mean, it's an institution kind of that it's a little bit of a crisis. But as I said at the beginning, at the same time, there's a lot of goodwill toward the NIH because it has produced advances that have improved human health.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Like we are able to treat childhood cancers that we weren't able to treat before the NIH's research. We're able to
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
have the advances in how we manage heart heart disease uh treat diabetes um these are big advances that we we now have essentially a cure for sickle cell anemia which i mean these are these are big advances and so when i talk to folks in congress it's popular the nh is popular and you know i think it ought to be popular in that sense if you um if
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
What I hear from folks in Congress essentially is, you know, please keep doing this research that advances human health and improves human health. But please don't do any of the politicized stuff that divides people. So that's one of the things I'm really quite proud of. This even started before I got in the office.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
There were parts of the NIH portfolio that essentially were like DEI politicized nonsense. They weren't actually science. The NIH is absolutely committed to advancing the health of minority populations. I mean, minority populations are Americans, and we are –
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
our mission is to advance the health of every single american no matter what race you are no matter what what sex you are no matter what your beliefs are there's no democrat or republican science there's just science right we're committed to that um but we shouldn't be doing work that politicizes science and we've managed to get rid of almost all of it uh at least i hope most almost all of it there's there's a
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Let me let me make the analogy with something that happened at the USAID, you know, the agency that the Doge sort of looked into first at the USAID. They were doing some really good things like they had a program called PEPFAR, really universally popular because it provided low, cheap HIV drugs to patients in Africa, saving millions of lives. It was a really good program.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I've written about that program in the past. It's a program that was actually rescued and I think brought in by Marco Rubio into the State Department. The same agency had in it a program to add a third gender to the Bangladeshi census. Now, Bangladesh has all kinds of problems.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
There's arsenic in the drinking water, hundreds of thousands of children dying of diarrheal illnesses, I mean, poverty at scale. And what the US government was doing was adding a third gender to its census.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
If you take something that's good, you know, PEPFAR, and then you surround it and marble it with like absolute politicized nonsense, you leave the good things open to political attacks that should never happen.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
um and it was irresponsible for the leaders of of of the usaid to allow the good things to be surrounded and marbled with with with politicized nonsense um and uh i think that in a sense the transition is as to making sure the nih focuses on actual science that actually advances human health um that's that's what we've been doing um i you know i don't want to get too far into the budget because it's a budget fights are always not not fun to talk about but um
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I think that there's a lot of support, even from the president himself wrote a letter to his science advisor, Michael Kratios, committing the U.S. to be the premier nation in biomedicine in the 21st century. And the NIH is going to play a key role in that aspiration.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
You know, one of the things, okay, so this is probably not, shouldn't be, shouldn't have shocked me, but it did. The way that the press reports some things are so distorted, it's almost, I mean, it's mind blowing. Let me give you an example. We found, one of the things I found is that So researchers often work with foreign universities, foreign labs. It's normal.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
I mean, it's not like international collaboration science is normal. The way the NIH paid for these things was by something called sub awards. So an American university, some university in the United States, researcher says, I'm going to work with somebody in France. We give money to the American university. Then the university then gives the money to the lab in France or something like that.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Anywhere, right? Doesn't matter. What I found out is that the NIH, which gives money to the US university, can't track really effectively or audit the money that's spent in that foreign lab. So the most crucial example of this is Wuhan. We can't get them to give us their lab notebooks for their experiments. We sent them money.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
So I put in a system that requires the same level of auditing power and scrutiny over the foreign labs that we give money to as we have of our American labs. It's a system, it's a little bit of a transition to get there, but it's not that disruptive. We're still allowing foreign collaborations to happen. It's just that now the NIH is going to be able to audit what's happening over there.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
The media reported as if I were banning all foreign collaborations. What we're doing is we're being able to audit foreign what's happening with American money in foreign institutions. I just, it's mind blowing to me, Vince, like how distorting a reporting can be, something that's really good and allow, in fact, will allow foreign collaborators to happen in a way that's like,
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
that the American people can be proud of instead is reported as, oh, we're some anti-science group that wants to kill all scientific collaboration. It's so far from the truth, it's remarkable. And yet the media reported it happily without even really asking me what was going on.
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Jay Bhattacharya on Secret Bio-Labs, COVID Origins, and MAHA | Episode 44
Thank you, Vincent. So it was a pleasure to talk.
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Trump Fights Big Pharma with Drug Plan, China Tariffs Pause, American Hostage Free: AM Update 5/13
What we're going to do is make sure that those prices become much closer to equal, like a competitive market you'd expect. You may think of it as somehow it's going after drug companies. Actually, it's helping drug companies.
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Trump Fights Big Pharma with Drug Plan, China Tariffs Pause, American Hostage Free: AM Update 5/13
Because what we're also going to do with this order, what President Trump has done with this order, is he's said to European governments, look, if you are taking advantage of the drug companies by forcing them to charge very, very low prices, we're going to defend American drug companies in Europe.
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Trump Fights Big Pharma with Drug Plan, China Tariffs Pause, American Hostage Free: AM Update 5/13
At the same time, we're standing up for the American consumer who's been paying far too high prices for far too long.
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Rep. Green Facing Censure, Vance Teases Finishing the Wall: AM Update for 3/6
The proper role of scientists in a pandemic is to answer basic questions that policymakers have about what the right policy should be. Our role isn't to make decisions to say you shouldn't be saying goodbye to your grandfather as he's dying in a hospital. It shouldn't be to say you can't have a funeral because it's too dangerous.
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Rep. Green Facing Censure, Vance Teases Finishing the Wall: AM Update for 3/6
The scientists say here's what the risks are, and then you decide whether you take it.
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Rep. Green Facing Censure, Vance Teases Finishing the Wall: AM Update for 3/6
Yes, you're absolutely right, Senator. We don't need to address every idea or concern. But if those concerns result in parents not wanting to vaccinate their children for a vaccine that is well tested, my sense is that my inclination is to give people good data.
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Rep. Green Facing Censure, Vance Teases Finishing the Wall: AM Update for 3/6
The money that comes to me, the direct costs as researchers, I understand exactly where that money goes. The indirect costs, I don't know where that goes. I think that that a lot of it likely goes to the things that are worthwhile. And I've heard lots of folks, including from Stanford who say that, um, And I agree with them.
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Rep. Green Facing Censure, Vance Teases Finishing the Wall: AM Update for 3/6
Support for buildings, light bulbs to make sure that we can see in the lab, and a whole host of other important things. But there's a lot of distrust about where the money goes because the trust in the public health establishment has collapsed in the pandemic. I think transparency regarding indirect costs is absolutely worthwhile. And I want to make sure that the money goes to the research.
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Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070
What we're going to do is make sure that those prices become much closer to equal, like a competitive market you'd expect. Right now what's happening is the American people are subsidizing in large fraction the research and development efforts for drug companies around the world by the higher prices that we pay. With this new order, Europe will share the burden of that.
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Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070
And in fact, if you may think of it as somehow it's going after drug companies, actually it's helping drug companies.
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Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070
Because what we're also going to do with this order, what President Trump has done with this order, is he's said to European governments, look, if you are taking advantage of the drug companies by forcing them to charge very, very low prices, we're going to defend American drug companies.