Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein is a Tufts University-trained physician who’s spent his entire career as an infectious disease specialist.

He’s on the infectious disease faculty at MGH and teaches at Harvard Medical School. He did a two-year tour at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And in 2023, he became the state’s point man on all things infectious disease.

These days, however, Goldstein spends less time fighting plagues and more time playing whack-a-mole as the Trump administration launches what Goldstein sees as dangerous attacks on the science and common-sense approaches that have been the bedrock of public health for decades.

How much time?

“Fighting this disinformation, unfortunately, is 90% of my job on any given day,” Goldstein said

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