KevinMD March 11, 2025
The song from the Broadway musical Hamilton, “(Yorktown) The World Turned Upside Down,” is stuck in my head. Indeed, these are no ordinary times. We have a measles outbreak in the U.S. that has resulted in numerous hospitalizations and now deaths. With censorship at the CDC, disruption of vaccine-related meetings, cancellation of active research grants, health impacts due to global aid interruptions, universities freezing hiring and graduate student admissions, and more, we are witnessing attempts to dismantle the crown jewels of the U.S. (and the world’s) biomedical research and public health infrastructure, the likes of which we have not seen before.
All of this raises many questions, of course. My thoughts turn to our graduating medical students and Match Day,...
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