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Good evening. I'm Laura Burone Lopez. John Yang is away. President-elect Donald Trump has named

three doctors to keep public health roles that oversee the U.S. vaccine supply, disease response, and food safety.

He's nominating Dr. Jeanette Neshawatt, a family medicine doctor and Fox News contributor, to be the

next surgeon general. Trump is also tapping John's Hopkins surgeon Marty McC News contributor to be the next surgeon general.

Trump is also tapping John's Hopkins surgeon Marty McCarrie to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

And Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida, to be the director of the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

For more on what the picks say about the administration's approach to public health and science,

we turn to Politico reporter Alice Miranda Olstein.

Alice, thanks so much for joining us.

The surgeon general is often called the nation's doctor, and they have one of the biggest public health pulpits.

I want to read for you a post by Jerome Adams, who served as Donald Trump's first surgeon general during that first administration.

And he posted today that whooping cough cases are up five times this year.

Measal deaths have gone up globally.

And that the new administration had better have a strong infectious disease response plan

and had better ensure public health and vaccine confidence stays high,

or they'll be distracted with outbreaks for four years.

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