Surgeon General Vivek Murthy isn’t shying away from politics, as his mother had once hoped when he was a kid.
Find Insider Deals for items perfect around the house and on the goSurgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sits for an interview with the Associated Press, inside his parents' home, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, near Miami, Fla. But when a middle school world history teacher suggested he might one day make a good secretary of state, his mom staged an intervention.
Murthy was reconfirmed under the Biden administration in 2021, with support from every Democratic senator and a handful of Republicans. He has an annual salary of $191,900.He points out that the numbers changed after he became surgeon general for the second time: Gun violence became the leading killer of U.S. children, surpassing car crashes and cancer in 2021.
The reaction was predictable. Doctors and Democrats praised it. Republicans jeered. The National Rifle Association called Murthy’s report a “war on law-abiding citizens.” Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., accused him of “flip-flopping,” noting that Murthy had told him gun violence would not be a focus of his term.
Those are matters he did not expect to tackle when he was first appointed to the job more than a decade ago.Loneliness skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people culled their friend groups and cut back on the time they spent in person with those friends –- down to a historic low of just 20 minutes every day. The state of loneliness, MurthyMurthy spent his time during the pandemic and in between terms consulting and giving speeches.
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