This is a sad story - and it also a case for why we need to invest in expert and adequate staffing to do oversight of our funds - the rapid slash and burn cuts to USAID and international assistance have made it more likely that funds could be misspent, as they have decimated those capacities.

🙏@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com for your segment just now on the stunning cruelty of the demolition of USAID and U.S. foreign assistance programs and how it is killing millions. We need more air time on this story and how much hurt it is causing to poor people around the 🌎 AND to America!

Thank you @billgates.com for everything you've done to save + improve the lives and opportunities for the world's poorest people over the past 25 years and what you will do with your wealth over the next 20. We need others to follow your lead, and to build the political will through advocacy.

taking their knowledge to other countries (including China!) that will greet them with open arms to challenge US supremacy in science.

The losers? Americans.

Congress can stop this by doing its job. Share this article widely. Urge people to tell Congress to stop the hemorrhaging.

dangerous health guidance being promoted over scientifically proven medical countermeasures; and bright minds leaving or never entering the public health or biomedical research fields,

And/or...

Rather, we will see millions more will die in the coming years because of: outbreaks for which we were not prepared and did not stop; cutting edge research that didn’t happen; federal, state and local public health agencies that are broken;

RFK Jr, Elon Musk, DOGE, and their minions and ideologues are racing to erase the talent, know-how, and govt capacity that enabled us to develop highly effective COVID vaccines in record time that saved millions of lives.