Trump appointed worm-brained RFK Jr. to lead the HHS department and destroy our country's world-wide supremacy in medical science and public health. Funding for scientific research has been withdrawn. Science is supplanted by conspiracy theories, superstition, snake-oil hucksterism, and disregard for authentic scientific knowledge.
But there is reason for hope that Trump and RFK Jr. will fail. California's Governor Newsom is hiring respected former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish world-leading public health science in California, for California and for a growing consortium of other states. An emerging 15-state "Governors' Public Health Alliance" will provide guidance from actual scientific research on vaccines, medications, testing for dangerous new diseases, and response coordination to health threats. Becoming the first U.S. state to join the World Health Organization, California's Health Alliances will replace the MAGA-undermined CDC and may even rescue the USA from becoming a second-rate scientific has-been.
Bruce Joffe
South Tucson
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