đź’€ RFK Jr. Is Killing His Own Cousin đź’€
Tatiana Schlossberg is dying from leukemia while her cousin Bobby guts the cancer research keeping her alive.
She’s in CAR-T trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering. The same trials he just defunded. Her chemo drug exists because of government-funded ocean research. The same research he calls wasteful.
She needed misoprostol to stop a postpartum hemorrhage. The drug Bobby’s “reviewing” at FDA. Without it, she bleeds out on the delivery table.
(This is not a Netflix series. This is happening right now.)
I survived brain cancer at 21. The NIH grants that would have saved me (had I been Dx last decade) are the ones Bobby’s canceling. The vaccine trials that could cure future cancers? Gone. The mRNA research that might save Tatiana?
Canceled like Bill Cosby. hashtag#JelloPuddingPops hashtag#TooSoon
Tatiana writes in The New Yorker about watching from her hospital bed as Bobby dismantles the system keeping her alive. Her husband, George, a Columbia researcher, might lose his job. Their insurance? Who knows.
“There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective,” Bobby says.
Meanwhile, Tatiana can’t get her childhood vaccines redone after the transplant. She’ll spend whatever time she has left immunocompromised because her cousin thinks polio was a hoax.
Caroline Kennedy wrote to the Senate begging them to stop him.
Too late.
The man who never worked a single day in medicine now controls whether cancer patients live or die.
Tatiana has two kids who won’t remember her. Bobby has power he’ll use to guarantee more kids lose their parents.
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SOURCE ➡️ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood