Overview
- The 35-year-old journalist said she has acute myeloid leukemia with a rare Inversion 3 mutation, discovered hours after giving birth in May 2024 when a blood test showed an extremely high white-cell count.
- She described multiple rounds of chemotherapy, two stem-cell transplants—first from her sister and later from an unrelated donor—and participation in CAR-T trials that led to severe complications.
- In September she contracted Epstein–Barr virus that severely damaged her kidneys and required relearning how to walk.
- A physician told her the most recent regimen could keep her alive for about a year at best.
- She criticized her cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for policies she says reduce NIH and mRNA-vaccine research support, noting her caregivers also faced uncertainty when federal funding to Columbia was briefly withdrawn then restored.