President-elect Donald Trump selected Dr. Jeanette Nesheiwat on Friday to serve as the U.S. Surgeon General, despite her past support for COVID-era mask mandates for children and support for censorship of vaccine skeptics.
“Thank you, Mr. President, for your trust. I pledge to work tirelessly to promote health, inspire hope, and serve our nation with dedication and compassion,” said Nesheiwat on X.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked on the front lines in New York City treating thousands of Americans and helped patients in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s historic Operation Warp Speed that saved hundreds of millions of lives,” said President Trump on X.
Nesheiwat currently works as a medical contributor for Fox News, making her the second Fox News contributor nominated to a position in Trump’s second cabinet, following Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth.
Shortly after Trump announced his pick, social media users began to dredge up her previous comments.
She has spoken radically in favor of the COVID vaccines, mask mandates, and even government-backed censorship of vaccine critics.
At the height of the COVID lockdowns, Nesheiwat was a fixture on Fox News, parroting the mainstream positions on lockdown measures and the dangers of the virus.
“To have a COVID vaccine, i.e. a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA that will actually save you from dying is a gift from God,” said Nesheiwat in an opinion piece for Fox in early 2021.
In the same article, she urged people to wear two masks simultaneously to allegedly increase their protection from the virus.
“Wear your mask and even consider wearing two masks at the same time – they are more protective according to the CDC,” she said.
“Also, practice physical distancing, keep a good distance from others of 6 to 10 feet, wash your hands, get tested and get your vaccine when it’s your turn,” she added.
Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted in a congressional hearing earlier this year that there was absolutely no scientific data to back up the arbitrary practice of social distancing.
“Yeah. I think it would fall under the category of empiric. Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished. But I’m thinking hard as I’m talking to you,” said Fauci.
Nesheiwat spoke in favor of requiring children in schools to wear masks, another practice that Fauci could not defend with any evidence.
“If you’re going to be in a classroom, in a crowded classroom, you want to protect yourself, wear a mask,” said Nesheiwat.
She also went on Fox’s Mornings with Maria, fawning over Mark Zuckerberg for censoring people critical of vaccines and asking other social media sites to follow suit.
“First of all vaccines save lives, and I am so excited, and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this affects everyone,” said Nesheiwat.
“It’s about time that they are taking action, and I hope and pray that other social media platforms will follow suit and do the same things,” she added.
Nesheiwat did appear critical of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to add the vaccine to the routine schedule for childhood vaccines, speaking on Tucker Carlson’s now-canceled Fox show.
“There’s no good reason to have a vaccine that can’t stop disease, can’t stop transmission of disease, on the childhood schedule,” she said.
Her claim that the vaccine does not stop disease or transmission appears to contradict her previous claim that the vaccine was a “gift from God.”
Despite her apparent reversal on Carlson’s show, she still has posts praising the vaccine, masking, and other COVID measures publicly displayed on her X account.
Nesheiwat is sure to be a stark contrast to Trump’s pick for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy has been an outspoken critic of the COVID vaccines and the lockdown measures, particularly focusing on the harm they cause to children.
He even wrote a 900-plus-page book exposing Fauci and the lies surrounding the COVID pandemic.
While Kennedy has publicly congratulated some of Trump’s other public health-related cabinet picks, such as Dr. Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control Director and Marty Makary for Director of the Food and Drug Administration, he has been notably silent on Nesheiwat’s nomination.
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