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“We’re at a period where our molecular understanding is unprecedented,” said Dr. Paul Mischel, a physician scientist at Stanford. “But the infrastructure is really falling apart.”
“It’s a problem — it’s a big, big problem,” he added. “People should be really angry.”
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