Jaya Bhattacharya Direct

When COVID hit, Bhattacharya did the math. While the world saw a linear curve of infections, he saw the shadow of a depression: canceled cancer surgeries, a generation of children losing literacy, nursing home lockdowns that turned into death sentences.

"We locked the old people in with the virus," he tells me over Zoom, his voice measured but clipped. "And we locked the young people out of their future." jaya bhattacharya

At that moment, most of America is applauding healthcare workers from balconies. Anthony Fauci is on 60 Minutes. And Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford, is about to commit academic heresy. When COVID hit, Bhattacharya did the math

He wants to tear down the "prestige journals" that acted as gatekeepers, force the FDA to lower the bar for generic drugs, and break the "Faucian" model of a single voice dictating national policy. "And we locked the young people out of their future