STAT December 26, 2025
Helen Branswell

If this past year was any indication, it’s time to buckle up again

We warned you late last year that 2025 was likely to be pretty rock ’n roll. Confession time: We had no idea it would be as cuckoo bananas as it turned out to be.

That the administration would summarily terminate most global health aid by shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development? Completely disrupt grant-funded scientific research around the country? Take a sledgehammer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Those weren’t on the bingo card. (Well, given how deeply Covid-era resentments run, the dismantling of the CDC may be less of a surprise.)

The appointment of a fervent vaccine opponent — Robert F. Kennedy...

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