This entire NYT article from 2017 about Trump’s enormous cuts to the agencies and programs that are now struggling to react to #COVD19 is bone-chilling nytimes.com/2017/05/28/us/…
$136mm cut from The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, which tracks outbreaks and disease
$65mm cut from the branch of the CDC that “fights threats like anthrax and ebola”
$76mm cut from the CDC’s Center Global Health, which helps "monitor outbreak responses"
$65mm cut from the branch of the CDC that “fights threats like anthrax and ebola”
$76mm cut from the CDC’s Center Global Health, which helps "monitor outbreak responses"
In 2017, @TomColeOK04 told the NYT that “Sometime in the president’s term, you will have a pandemic. Cutting the Centers for Disease Control, I think, leaves you very vulnerable and the American people very vulnerable."
@TomColeOK04 Another quote from the piece:
“The next weapon of mass destruction may not be a bomb. It may be a tiny pathogen that you can’t see, smell, or taste, and by the time we discover it, it’ll be too late.”
“The next weapon of mass destruction may not be a bomb. It may be a tiny pathogen that you can’t see, smell, or taste, and by the time we discover it, it’ll be too late.”
