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... The environmental writer also addressed her cousin, Robert F Kennedy Jr, criticizing the influence his policies as secretary of health and human services have had on her experience with the illness. ...

Later in the essay, as she described her ongoing treatments, Schlossberg criticized Kennedy's policies as health secretary. She expressed strong disapproval of his anti-vaccine positions and his decisions to cut funding for medical research, emphasizing the harm such actions cause to patients like herself.

"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers," she wrote.

She continued that Kennedy "slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings".

Schlossberg added that doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving medical center, where she was receiving care, were uncertain about their future after the Trump administration withdrew federal funding from the university. ...