Jan. 31, 2020
1/ “In the spring of 2018, the WH pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252M in...committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea.” foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
1/ “In the spring of 2018, the WH pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252M in...committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea.” foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
2/ “Under fire from both sides of the aisle, Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola funds a month later. But other White House efforts included reducing $15B in national health spending & cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS & HHS.“
3/ “And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.”
6/ “While agencies in other countries were advising and conducting widespread testing, the CDC, charged with setting the U.S. standard for who should be tested for the virus, kept its criteria limited.”
wsj.com/articles/how-t…
wsj.com/articles/how-t…
7/
https://twitter.com/blmohr/status/1242031829529567243?s=21
https://twitter.com/blmohr/status/1242031829529567243
8/ U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak reut.rs/2J96v0A
9/ “It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
10/ “A series of missteps at the nation’s top public health agency caused a critical shortage of reliable laboratory tests for the coronavirus, hobbling the federal response as the pandemic spread across the country like wildfire”
apnews.com/c335958b1f8f6a…
apnews.com/c335958b1f8f6a…
12/ “The Trump admin cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak.”
“...fed health agencies’ testing efforts were hampered by a series of missteps. An FDA requirement deterred private testing. The CDC bungled a test developed in a govt lab. Top leaders failed to ensure adequate supplies & have struggled to turn around the rollout...”
14/ “Americans for Prosperity’s position (for employees to go back to work) comes after the group lobbied the Trump administration in 2018 to rescind $1 billion from the CDC and Prevention.”
theintercept.com/2020/03/26/ame…
theintercept.com/2020/03/26/ame…
15/
https://twitter.com/crewcrew/status/1243508444298121216?s=21
https://twitter.com/crewcrew/status/1243508444298121216
h/t @TheRynheart
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