Government funding for science is typically immune to political gridlock and polarization in Congress. But federal funding for science is expected to decline by 2025. Scientific research dollars are considered discretionary, meaning funding must be approved by Congress each year. But it falls into a budget category with larger entitlement programs like Medicare and Social … Read more
Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Display more opinion on CNN. Anyone eager to relive the bitterness, madness and danger of the early Covid-19 pandemic might want to spend a few hours … Read more
Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Display more opinion on CNN. Anyone eager to relive the bitterness, madness and danger of the early Covid-19 pandemic might want to spend a few hours … Read more