FDA Pick Makary’s Conventional Background Could Clash With Some Of RFK Jr.’s Views

Surgeon and author Marty Makary, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head FDA, has a more conventional background than Trump’s picks for the top roles at HHS and CMS, which could set him up to clash with “Make American Healthy Again” priorities on some topics while sharing common ground on others, including his desire to reverse course on FDA’s current endorsement of universal and regular COVID-19 vaccination. Unlike Kennedy, Makary has called for FDA to speed up its product reviews, and...