Updates on the CDC, NIH, and other US health programs, with Jeremy Faust and Jessica Yellin.

Today, I joined the great Jessica Yellin (author of the News Not Noise on Substack) for a live catch-up on where things stand for the US public health system. Now that we are three weeks into the new Trump administration, we wanted to take stock of what’s happened, and where we are.

We covered:

• The US withdrawing from the WHO, and why it matters.

• Censorship at the CDC, and the latest legal news that (ostensibly) requires the agency to restore all websites that were removed after President Trump’s executive orders.

• The chaos and uncertainty around the NIH funding freeze rollercoaster and the recent “cap” of certain types of funding which, if implemented, could spell disaster for biomedical research in the US.

(Closed captions (㏄) and a transcript option (📄) can be found beneath the video playback control bar.)

This was my first Substack Live, and it’s a great platform. If you want to join me live in the future, you can download the free app, which will alert you when we begin. (I’ll also post the videos here after, like this one.)

And let me know what you think of this format!

—Dr. Jeremy

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