Who can ever forget when, in April 2020, President Donald Trump stood at the White House podium and outlined a possible new avenue for treating COVID-19: America’s scientists should study disinfecting the human body by injecting bleach .

For over half a century, medical guidance from the United States has shaped public health decisions worldwide. At that moment in 2020, it seemed almost incomprehensible that an American president could be dispensing advice so evidently lethal and nonsensical that even a middle schooler would know not to follow it. One indelible image from that day was the anguished expression of Trump’s pandemic response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx , who looked as if her soul was leaving her body.

Apparently, this was just a warm-up act. In his second adminis

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