Seeking a sickle cell cure: 12-year-old in DC is 1st patient to get new gene therapy

A 12-year-old boy who suffers debilitating pain because of sickle cell disease has become the first patient in the U.S. to undergo a newly approved gene therapy. Kendric Cromer is being treated at Children’s National Hospital in D.C. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.
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