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Zara Ahmed, DrPH😷 Profile picture
@ZarainDC
Mar 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
To help explain the value of #CDC to the stock market-obsessed Trump administration, in Nov 2018 colleagues and I wrote this article about the links between global health security & the US economy, including effects on jobs, tourism, travel, and education.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
We even made it an infographic, so they could understand how devastating a global outbreak could be on various sectors, at-a-glance.
cdc.gov/globalhealth/h…
We broke all of this down for individual states and shared this analysis widely on the Hill. Here's a piece of the one for #NewYork. Image
We wrote 2 other articles on how important #CDC is to stopping #outbreaks at their source & the need to support the agency's scientists & programs. One article modeled what could happen to the US economy if a #pandemic starting in Asia got out of control.
liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10…
We even made that an infographic so they could get how vital #publichealth is as a national and economic security issue. Image
And yet, the Trump administration kept trying to cut the budget for CDC. See my other thread on this, here:
Bottom line: the Trump administration knew that this could happen. We told them it could, years ago but they ignored the evidence. They tried to close the CDC China office. The fired the GHS team at the #NSC. They hamstrung CDC at every turn. #Coronavirus could have been stopped.
This isn't about "we told you so." It's about the fact that CDC is full of smart, hardworking people whose expertise has been sidelined & ignored, not just for the last few months, but for the last 3 years. CDC staff will always be there for you--we need to be there for them.

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Did you hear today's episode of #TheDaily from @nytimes with Marjorie Dannenfelser and feel 🤯 listening to all the anti-choice nonsense? If so, here's the real deal on abortion in the US and why this essential health service needs to be protected. (1/x)
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I'm incredibly proud of my colleagues at #CDC for raising up the issue of racial inequality, both inside and beyond the agency. Having spent 10 years at CDC, I can definitively say that the challenge of racism at the agency is real and that it's past time that it's addressed.
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Not only does it cover the history of #immigration, both by choice and against one's will, it explores #ClimateChange, the challenges of being bi/multiracial, manifestations of racism, and more, all through the lens of food.
And of course, the food looks amazing. (Side note: someone should make a compilation of Padma's "oh my god" reaction shots.) The episode on the struggles of Thai women of Las Vegas had me crying and drooling at the same time.
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