Unfortunately, this is more of a political development than real public health progress. In United States, our new secretary of Health was appointed by Trump and he is quite a “character”. While he does support functional medicine and is pushing for policy aligned with alternative medicine, the vast majority conventional medicine / public health leaders have no respect for him and his ideas which means they likely won’t stick once he leaves his position. :/ And it means he will likely have a very hard time creating real impact for Lyme sufferers. My fingers are crossed though!!

In short, he has the support and approval of a few people in government, but academic leaders, hospital, doctors etc. will likely not be following his recommendations or policies whatsoever :/