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This may be difficult for some readers to digest, but please do me a favor and read it🙏: “WH efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, HHS.” #fundCDC foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
2) “In May 2018, Trump ordered NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for dissolution of team. The month before, John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither NSC/DHS epidemic teams have been replaced.”😬
3) “The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10.”
