By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Happy birthday America! The proper term for America’s 250th birthday (the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026) is the Semiquincentennial. Other terms you may see include: America250 — the official branding used by the national commemorative organization. [america250.org] 250th Anniversary of American Independence — a plain-language description. Less common alternatives are: Sestercentennial and Quarter Millennium.

I searched AI to bring to perspective on our progress:

• American contribution

• Huge impact on health

• Technically demonstrable and reproducible

• Less dependent on debates about specific interventions or disease narratives

My “America at 250” medical achievements list would be:

What’s striking is that the biggest improvements in life expectancy often came not from a drug or vaccine, but from clean water, sewage systems, food safety, isolation practices, and public-health organization. Many historians of medicine argue that those public-health advances contributed more to mortality reduction than most individual therapies.

For a Semiquincentennial presentation, a nice framing would be:

1776: Doctors could watch you suffer.

1826: Doctors could sometimes help.

1876: Doctors began to understand disease.

1926: Doctors could cure some diseases.

1976: Doctors could perform many life saving surgeries.

2026: Doctors can analyze disease at the genetic level and use thousands of drugs and perform hundreds of procedures.

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Happy Fourth of July!

Sincerely yours,

Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Chief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Company

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