Patients are seen in their room at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory in Pyongyang, North Korea.
ERIC TALMADGE/AP
Excited to share my recent op-ed piece in STAT news: “Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: authoritarian love in the time of TB“. It begins:
“President Donald Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the airborne bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet — are embroiled in a potentially awkward three-way love triangle.
I wish this was the setup to a late-night talk show host’s punchline, but it isn’t.”