DOGE Takes a Chain Saw to Federally Funded Scientific Research

“These are things of nightmares,” Virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen told me earlier this week, when discussing the chances of bird flu Mutating this flu season. Hospitals treat regular patients with influenza and bird flu in the same wards, increasing the potential of bird flu to gain genes from other flu strains so as to alleviate the transfer of humans and humans.

Rasmussen – Professor at the University of Saskatzno, in Canada, and at the University of Stani Brooke, in New York. Vaccine expert, she was open criticism of Trump administration and Dogeo attack on research in the country and infrastructure for disease control.

With the DOGE cuts, destroying vital health care systems, “we have disabled our monitoring. We disabled our response,” she explained. In other words, when bird flu begins to circulate in the community, the health care system that Doge is most likely not to catch it until it spreads in geometric progression and the hospitals are overcome. “It will be like one day, all right, and the next day is a pandemic bird flu.”

If this happens, Rasmussen fears the second set of unsuccessful answers: the country has only 10 million doses from one vaccine that is supposed to work against birds, and the health department of Robert F. Kennedy -Moloda may give up the authorization of emergency use.

The first month in the post of Moscow Trump imagined such a complete attack on the functionality of the government, which is difficult to understand the totality of what is happening. But one way to view this is that every Trump is designed to head another aspect of the federal system, has its devastating potential. When acting at the concert, the result will be catastrophic. We are already seeing huge changes in foreign policy; The Ministry of Justice is cleaning the Ministry of Justice resources for Trump’s enemies; escalation of human rights abuses against immigrants; politicization of military and national security systems; Expanding a huge tax reduction for wealthy, paid equally huge reduction to medical coverage for the poor; attacks on free press; Looping the attack on anything related to the diversity, justice or inclusion in the federal labor, the private sector and institutions funded by federally, including colleges and universities; the gap of any and all the fences aimed at preventing the self -reflection and conflict of interest on the highest echelons of power; and an unprecedented attack on the concept of public health.

This is the last thing I had in my head this week.

Public health comes with a lot of abbreviations, and easy to adjust when trying to navigate these secret administrative roads. But this regime, which was traveling on the wave of hostility of the Mag, to the scientific examination as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, went teeth even to the most incomprehensible public health offices. Its efforts to restructure the country from vaccines and from advanced medical and scientific research on many issues that fall into almost every science.

Trump 2.0 uses creative measures for unloading the distribution of research funds even before the court order. He refuses to schedule vital meetings of advisory councils and tries to impose draconian cuts by research and public health institutions. It also takes Moscow’s network drank For the labor force of public health, the dismissal of contract workers-scientists working on state projects are often on five-year contracts and staff. The result is that at any level of the government remains less people to respond to the crisis – and fewer career professionals who can act as potatoes against the worst impulses of the Ministry of Health and Human Services.

Let’s start with these leaders. The first, there is Robert F. Kennedy -Younger.Known Anti-Wax and Alternative Medicine Faddist, which is now responsible for HHS. Incoming head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, David WeldonAnti-Vaxxer is also an abortion rigid opponent, and supports laws that allow insurance companies not to pay for reproductive medical services. Jay BhattachariahThe Trump nominee will head the National Institute of Health, was a leading supporter of the approach to the COVID-19 immunity, even if most health experts warned that such a reaction to a new respiratory disease would lead to a huge amount of mortality.

Kennedy-Veldon-Bhattacheria Troika is bad enough, but even before their confirmation, Trump pulled one devastating executive order after the next. In the footsteps of Trump pulls the US from the World Health Organization, CDC stopped sharing Data on influenza observation with its global partners, which significantly complicates scientists to accurately evaluate what influenza strains they should choose for vaccination, against the northern hemisphere season.

As the government increases its war with everything that could be considered as “Dei”, scientific provision of candidates from marginal communities were blockedThus, at risking the careers of these young scientists, as well as taking a huge number of vital research on racial dispensations in the field of health and assistance. My colleague Gregg Honsalve recently wrote a powerful piece for that.

When Trump issued an executive order “stage“The distribution of all state grants, he was immediately a repeated judge who issued a preliminary ban against this decision. But according to the statute, the new NIH grants must be approved by the Advisory Committee, and the notification of the Advisory Committee meetings should be published in Federal Register. Administration ordered Nih To put an uncertain stop in the publishing house of any notifications in Federal Register; As a result, the Committee cannot meet and the grants are not approved.

Add to this effort – again Accordingly due to the intervention of the court– To limit the universities to “indirect costs” related to their research, up to 15 percent of the grant, from modern levels, which are often north of 50 percent, and the effect increases. Cut indirect costs mean that laboratories will not be able to pay for electricity, janitors will not be able to clean the scientific buildings, the administrative staff, which is responsible for managing the grants, will work without difficulty. As it is stated, if these cuts are allowed to continue, leading research institutions will lose billions of dollars, at risk of America’s status as a world leader in scientific and, especially medical research.

As for access to the vaccine, with the measles epidemic in Texas and New Mexico, and the constant distribution of MPOX, not to mention the upcoming threat of bird flu, you might think that any reasonable administration will want its advice on the vaccine. Instead, a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) this week (ACIP) was sharply canceled And not transferred; The chair learned about the cancellation by reading about it on the Internet. Similarly, this week another committee, which is accused of developing what they oppose the flu in the flu season 2025-26, also canceled meetings, without a new date. This is a recipe for disaster next year as it may mean that there will be no flu vaccine in the US, taking into account the strains. Acip data on mpoxwhich was disproportionately in the LGBTC -community, was temporarily removed from state sites; And although after that he was restored, Rasmussen was deeply concerned that he would also be a victim of the war on Dei.

The virologist believes that it is likely that the administration will soon form ACIP with anti-Vaxxers, which will come up with mRNA vaccine, MMR vaccine and polio vaccine. Although these recommendations will not lead to the fact that the vaccines will be recalled, they would make it more likely that the insurers could choose not to illuminate them, and doctors would decide not to offer patients to receive them.

The attack on science does not end. The labor force of the epidemic intelligence service, which examines the outbreaks of the disease, was aimed at firing as it was Lab servicewho prepares people who cooperate with healthcare laboratories. Rasmussen believes that the LLS has lost half its molecular power.

The staff was also fired at the National Biotechnology Information Center, which stores vital data on biotechnology development. Different FDA departments were shortened. And most members of the CDC team, the US digital service specialists who worked on the country’s disease observation system and software development, to better identify new epidemics, also lost work. The senior member of the team Itir Cole, who resigned rather than expects him to be fired, wrote to LinkedIn: “On the day I resigned, almost all my team was fired, blocked from his computers without time for transitional duties. There was no real reason. No one was consulted in my team.”

Cumulatively these actions leave America to be seriously preventing the outbreaks of the disease and increase the risk to the world of global pandemics. These actions are so fundamentally wrong that it is difficult to find for them any benign explanation. They are pure distillation of nihilism of the musk-tramp. From all areas of destruction, which dodge is unleashed, it is in the science, and in particular in medical research, the consequences are likely to be the most devastating.

Sasha Obramsky

Sasha Obramsky NationWestern correspondent. He is the author of several books, including American way of poverty. House twenty thousand books. Not surprising: Fairytale Loty Dodd, the world’s first sports superforeand most recently Chaos is calling: The Battle of the extremely right absorption of America in America.

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