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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Fauci said he’s gotten hundreds of letters from people telling him they want to practice medicine.