A Cure at Any Cost? — The $3.1 Million Sickle Cell Breakthrough Stirs Hope and Outrage

On December 17, 2024, a quiet but seismic shift happened in a hospital on Long Island. A 21-year-old Black man named Sebastien Beauzile, who had spent most of his life shuttling between emergency rooms and hospital beds, received a single infusion at Cohen Children’s Medical Center that would change everything he knew about his own body.