Incoming Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has selected Dr. Marty Makary to head his medical advisory team.
The Republican, set to take office on Sunday, announced the addition to his administration and others in a press release Tuesday. Makary has published over 250 scientific articles on the redesign of healthcare and is a Fox News medical contributor, where he has spoken against the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I recognize the severity of the virus and the significant loss that it has caused,” Youngkin said in his press release. “Virginians should rest assured that we are monitoring this variant and doing everything we can to be smart about this.”
Makary is a surgical oncologist, chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplant Center, clinical lead for the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub, and the executive director of Improving Wisely, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project “to lower health care costs in the U.S. by creating measures of appropriateness in health care,” according to the press release.
Makary’s research “focuses on the creation and evaluation of new health care innovations. He is the creator of the Surgery Checklist, publishing its first description and later served on the W.H.O. Safe Surgery Saves Lives committee,” the press release added. “He serves jointly as a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor of health policy & management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”
In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Makary argued Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials have put too much of an emphasis on COVID-19 vaccines, especially for young, healthy people. He said this overemphasis “is kind of to the exclusion of recognizing the role of therapeutics and natural immunity.”
Youngkin also announced others for his medical advisory team, including Nancy Agee, Kathy Gorman, Alan Levine, Dr. Bogdan Neughebaeur, and Anand Shah.
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Youngkin and state Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares announced they intend to challenge President Joe Biden’s “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates imposed by federal agencies.
The two pledged coming change and that Biden’s mandates won’t degrade the freedom of Virginians after they assume office.
