Francis Collins: “It is unprecedented to have NIH and academic researchers getting together around the same table with equal financial…”

Both of those groundbreaking projects, BRAIN and All of Us, are now at severe risk because of budget and workforce cuts.

Freedom has responsibilities, not just rights. And if this is what we have to do to get to the point where this virus is sent packing, well, that`s up to all of us to get there.

Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, labeled me a fringe epidemiologist.

Let me remind you of the last sentence of that Gettysburg Address: 'that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'