MedPage Today November 6, 2024
Jeremy Faust

— We must continue to fight

Well, the next 4 years are going to be challenging ones for public health.

Let’s talk it through for a moment.

In 2016, I wrote in Slate that I was very concerned about the Republican party’s embrace of pseudoscience during its wacky summer convention. But when it came down to filling positions at the highest levels of the federal government’s public health infrastructure, Donald Trump’s choices as President often turned out to be more or less mainstream. Even if you didn’t agree with many of the particular views, these were frequently people who had long and serious prior involvement in healthcare and public health. Maybe they were a little on the crony side and...

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