Editorials on how fast advances in computer vision and face recognition are lacking in ethical standards (with plenty of shoulds and musts, but no proposal to enforce those), a call for stronger condemnations of Trumpian attacks on science and academics by international scientific institutions, taking as a leading example a statement of concern by the Pontifical Academy of Science (or Pontificia Academia Scientiarum in plain latin) in Vatican, which, considering the history of the relations between Church and Science, is not an obvious choice!, another (mostly) Trumpian-induced plea for the return of foreign aid to low and middle income countries from the high income donors, rather than focussing on defence budgets (again with no practical strategy to achieve this goal)—with different headings in printed and online versions.
Half-a-dozen entries on How Trump 2.0 is reshaping science, from the federal judicial ruling that NIH grants are illegal since discriminatory (with no immediate impact), to the new vaccine panel members set by RF Kennedy with a dearth of experts and the arrival of vaccine sceptics (or worse), to a Nature supplement entitle Science Inc., looking at private funding to compensate for federal disengagement (with France’s Sanofi and Capgemini deserving a mention, for once), to an original Nature—and KFF, a non-profit health-policy research organization from San Francisco— investigation on how to make the US healthy again. If at all feasible.

As expected, the gap with other wealthy (and more healthy) nations is stupendous for many criteria. Caused by much higher death rates associated with COVID-19, substance misuse, chronic diseases, transport accidents (poor public facilities), and gun deaths (of course, even though this latter cause was recently removed from the HSS website). With a significant difference between States and ethnicities. The fixes requiring more federal intervention and money, as well as opposing the gun lobby, it is very very unlikely this is going to happen, witness the recent cut on Medicaid.
“one 5-year-old out of every 20 will die before the age of 45 The comparable figure is one in 50 in the United Kingdom and one in 100 in Switzerland.”