In October 2020, @DrJBhattacharya authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for an end to covid lockdowns. Four days later, Dr. Fauci and then NIH Director Francis Collins emailed each other to plot a "devastating takedown of its premises. It wasn't long after that old Twitter began putting him on a blacklist to prevent his tweets from trending. That scientist who was censored and defamed by the government will now be leading the NIH.