Overview
- Her death was announced Tuesday in a family statement posted by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation on social media.
- Doctors first detected the leukemia after she gave birth on May 25, 2024, when tests showed an abnormally high white blood cell count.
- She underwent chemotherapy, two stem cell or bone marrow transplants, and clinical trials including CAR‑T therapy, and wrote that a doctor told her he could keep her alive for a year, maybe.
- Schlossberg was a former New York Times science and climate reporter and the author of the 2019 book Inconspicuous Consumption, which later won a major environmental book award.
- In her essay, she criticized cousin and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for actions she said endangered research and vaccine access; she is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two young children.