Trump vs. Public Health: Funding Cuts Gut CDC's Disease Detectors, Medical Research & More

Staff layoffs. Slashed budgets. Canceled conferences. We take a look at the effects of the Trump administration's defunding of health and science research with science reporter Angus Chen. Chen, who reports on cancer research, says cuts to the National Institutes of Health are creating a really serious chilling effect on the scientific community," and warns that the loss of research in the U.S. would not just be a loss to American patients, but to people all around the world."