“Take care of yourself…because nobody is going to help you,” warns Dr. Kavita Patel, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, an internal medicine specialist, and a former advisor to the Obama Administration.
It’s a bleak assessment by Dr. Patel, and one she doesn’t make lightly. That’s how destructive the Trump Administration has been in its pro-death march.
In addition to gutting Medicaid with the GOP billionaire bill, RFK Jr. and his rogue’s gallery of cranks have also taken a chainsaw to the National Institute of Health and the CDC, prompting numerous high-profile resignations. Trump has cancelled $12 billion in health care grants and made massive cuts to cancer research, but found more than $200 million for “Alligator Alcatraz,” a concentration camp in Florida, and $200 million to renovate the White House ballroom.
Due to right-wing disinformation, vaccine hesitancy has spiked in America, and fewer kids are being vaccinated against diseases that are now surging at record levels, such as measles. This will result in more people getting sick and dying, especially our most vulnerable populations. Women’s health is also under direct assault due to draconian policies in red states that threaten to punish doctors who help women who need life-saving abortions. OB-GYN doctors are fleeing Florida and Texas, along with highly qualified doctors, scientists, and medical researchers who are being poached by foreign countries.
It’s rough, folks. Dr. Patel doesn’t mince words, but instead of giving us hopelessness, she provides practical steps for people to keep themselves and their family members healthy and recommends reliable resources and websites. She also debunks the anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that have run rampant and explains why people should get vaccinated immediately in light of the Trump Administration’s aggressive pro-death march and attacks on science.
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