Dr. Adam Ratner
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So that's fine, but he also comes from the most privileged background imaginable, and that is not everyone's experience of measles.
I have many concerns about that. My greatest concern is that he will harm or disable the vaccine infrastructure, that he will make vaccines unavailable to people who want to get them, and that he will make people who are unsure of whether they should vaccinate their children feel like they should not vaccinate their children. I think he has spent...
I have many concerns about that. My greatest concern is that he will harm or disable the vaccine infrastructure, that he will make vaccines unavailable to people who want to get them, and that he will make people who are unsure of whether they should vaccinate their children feel like they should not vaccinate their children. I think he has spent...
I have many concerns about that. My greatest concern is that he will harm or disable the vaccine infrastructure, that he will make vaccines unavailable to people who want to get them, and that he will make people who are unsure of whether they should vaccinate their children feel like they should not vaccinate their children. I think he has spent...
a lot of his adult life fighting against vaccines, and I see no reason that that is going to stop.
a lot of his adult life fighting against vaccines, and I see no reason that that is going to stop.
a lot of his adult life fighting against vaccines, and I see no reason that that is going to stop.
I think about how hard it has been to get to the point that we're at right now. And I think the most important message that I want to come across from my book is that we live in a time when children, for the most part, grow up happy and healthy, and where infectious diseases that used to kill large numbers of children have been brought under control through vaccines.
I think about how hard it has been to get to the point that we're at right now. And I think the most important message that I want to come across from my book is that we live in a time when children, for the most part, grow up happy and healthy, and where infectious diseases that used to kill large numbers of children have been brought under control through vaccines.
I think about how hard it has been to get to the point that we're at right now. And I think the most important message that I want to come across from my book is that we live in a time when children, for the most part, grow up happy and healthy, and where infectious diseases that used to kill large numbers of children have been brought under control through vaccines.
And that has been through a tremendous amount of work, and some of that has been scientific work, but some of that has also been policy work in building an infrastructure that can withstand – fluctuations in funding and can provide support for getting vaccines to children whose families may not be able to afford them and all sorts of other things that have been built over time.
And that has been through a tremendous amount of work, and some of that has been scientific work, but some of that has also been policy work in building an infrastructure that can withstand – fluctuations in funding and can provide support for getting vaccines to children whose families may not be able to afford them and all sorts of other things that have been built over time.
And that has been through a tremendous amount of work, and some of that has been scientific work, but some of that has also been policy work in building an infrastructure that can withstand – fluctuations in funding and can provide support for getting vaccines to children whose families may not be able to afford them and all sorts of other things that have been built over time.
The successes that we have And the point that we are at in children's public health is not guaranteed. And I am worried that actions taken in the next year, two years, may have long-lasting effects on the health of children, not just in the United States. I think it'll be in the United States first, but I think worldwide.
The successes that we have And the point that we are at in children's public health is not guaranteed. And I am worried that actions taken in the next year, two years, may have long-lasting effects on the health of children, not just in the United States. I think it'll be in the United States first, but I think worldwide.
The successes that we have And the point that we are at in children's public health is not guaranteed. And I am worried that actions taken in the next year, two years, may have long-lasting effects on the health of children, not just in the United States. I think it'll be in the United States first, but I think worldwide.
As we were talking about with the infrastructure for vaccine delivery, the biomedical research enterprise in the United States is incredible. And there have been advances that have helped All Americans. And we would never have had the COVID-19 vaccines without NIH research. We would never have the chemotherapies that we have or the gene therapies that are emerging to cure diseases.
As we were talking about with the infrastructure for vaccine delivery, the biomedical research enterprise in the United States is incredible. And there have been advances that have helped All Americans. And we would never have had the COVID-19 vaccines without NIH research. We would never have the chemotherapies that we have or the gene therapies that are emerging to cure diseases.
As we were talking about with the infrastructure for vaccine delivery, the biomedical research enterprise in the United States is incredible. And there have been advances that have helped All Americans. And we would never have had the COVID-19 vaccines without NIH research. We would never have the chemotherapies that we have or the gene therapies that are emerging to cure diseases.
That is all of those advances are are built on the back of NIH-funded basic research. It is absolutely critical to people's health in both the short and the long term. I think that the executive order capping NIH indirect costs at 15% and making it effective immediately and apply to existing grants is going to be an enormous budgetary strain on universities and other research institutions.