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Brexit and Trump are bad for our health

  • Written by Elizabeth Radin, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University

Politics in America and Europe may be increasingly isolationist, but deadly pathogens aren’t. Votes for Brexit and Donald Trump may in fact be votes for worsening pandemics and fewer doctors and researchers to fight them.

This summer Brits chose to leave the EU and Americans nominated Trump as the Republican Party candidate. On both sides of...

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