Donald Trump’s pick of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary was heralded by COVID-19 contrarians and anti-vaxxers. Important Context documented some of the responses to the announcement from the fringes.

Donald Trump has named Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health economist and proponent of "natural immunity" over COVID-19 mitigation, as his pick to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya, co-author of the discredited Great Barrington Declaration, has long opposed lockdowns, vaccines for younger populations, and pandemic safety measures.