STAT+: How a Boston doctor built a following as a ‘loud and unafraid’ voice in the Trump era
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- Jeremy Faust practices emergency medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, treating more than two dozen patients per shift while running the Substack newsletter "Inside Medicine" to its nearly 85,000 subscribers.
- Faust broke news on his Substack about the MV Hondius — a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak while docked off Cape Verde — reporting that 26 passengers had disembarked earlier than previously known.
- The hantavirus story raised the possibility the rare virus could spread in the United States via passengers who left the MV Hondius ahead of schedule.
- The STAT+ profile characterizes Faust as a "loud and unafraid" medical voice during the Trump era, positioning his newsletter as an independent counterweight to establishment public health coverage.
Why it matters: With nearly 85,000 subscribers and scoops like the MV Hondius hantavirus report — which revealed 26 passengers disembarked earlier than known — Faust runs a medical news operation out of a practicing physician's schedule, giving subscribers physician-led reporting on public health stories that traditional outlets had not yet surfaced.
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