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.”
4) “Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent” and “the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated”
5) The “independent, bipartisan panel formed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies concluded that lack of preparedness was so acute that the “US must either pay now and gain protection and security or wait for the next epidemic and pay a much greater price“ 🤒
6) Everyone wants facts and reality without spin. But do you only want the convenient facts? The sugar coated facts? Goto other outlets for those. I’m just sharing all the verified facts. And fact is we need much more funding and programs for epidemics and public health. Period.
