“The next virus is only a plane, train, or boat ride away.”

The United States is clocking 4 million coronavirus cases and rising. As America’s Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams is one of the Trump administration’s highest profile public health warriors battling the COVID-19 crisis. “There are a lot of politics masquerading as science right now”, Adams tells Die Weltwoche, “and we need to separate the two out.”

Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams is a tough man to wrangle. COVID-19 is keeping “America’s Doctor” very busy. When the 45-year-old anesthesiologist accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to join the administration, he could not have imagined that, three years into the job, he’d be confronting the biggest global health crisis in a century. Wielding degrees in biochemistry, biopsychology, medicine, and public health, the former health commissioner of Indiana has been on the front lines with Dr. Anthony Fauci and the White House coronavirus task force attempting to stem the tide of infection. 

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