The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle much of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and sharply reduce foreign health assistance has become a central issue in evaluating the current Ebola crisis in the Congo. Public health experts argue that the cuts weakened the international disease surveillance network that had been built after the catastrophic West African Ebola epidemicA of 2014–2016.
Between 2001 and 2024, USAID operated on an average budget of approximately $23 billion per year.
My question in this post is How do ventilators work, and why do we need them now in the age of COVID-19? Governor Andrew Cuomo of NY has asked for 30,000 ventilators. Trump questions that he'll need that many. Instead of mobilizing the country to provide the support...
Jon Cohen’s (staff writer for Science) interview with Anthony Fauci shows how difficult it is to deal with truth in the daily coronavirus Press Conferences. Like many of you, I've tuned into these "daily" Coronavirus Task Force press briefings. I don't know about you,...
Various labs are in the process of developing a COVID-19 Test. Unfortunately, the United States has been late to the crisis because the CDC decided to develop its own test kit, but it failed. It was unreliable. In South Korea, shortly after the outbreak in China, they...
The Trump's COVID-19 response is untruthful and too late. Many watched Trump declare a national emergency on Friday. The real national emergency began two months ago. Trump did not act. He denied all of the facts about the coronavirus. Trump called it a foreign...
