Millions around the world can die from the choice that Trump made in his first 100 days.
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy -Jelling in the Oval office on April 18, 2025.
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The first 100 days of the second administration of Donald Trump ended this week. A lot inclusive meThey wrote about the destruction of these several months, which caused important programs in the federal government, and about how science and public health were undermined in both words and in matters.
These attacks were not left unanswered. There was a flurry of lawsuits to stop cutting in NIH, NSF, CDC and other agencies. Universities are stand To the administration, and thousands organize to protect America’s health and human health around the world. But the debris is still big.
As the amount of damage caused the president, scientists also begin to document and evaluate the fee for death and suffering, which will now be part of Trump’s inheritance. Several new documents emphasized what it is about.
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In A paper in one of LancetFamily magazines, Jan Hanteles from Erasmus University’s Medical College, and colleagues from all over the world have calculated short-term consequences of 90-day break for the US Flagship global HIV/AIDS programAIDS Emergency Plan for AIDS (PEPFAR). Three months may not seem long, but it is enough to cause huge damage. Excessive death, which the study predicts in different scenarios in seven countries south of Sahara, is from 64,000 to 70,000 over the next five years. Given that most PEPFAR sites are now in a suspended state, we will soon be able to put these predictions for the test.
Longer -term exposure to stop financing PEPFAR is even more gloomy. Debra Ten boundaries at the Bern Institute in Australia and colleagues in HIV LANCET propose This is an expected decrease in international assistance, including the termination of PEPFAR financing, can lead to 4.4 million to 10.8 million additional new HIV infections by 2030 and from 770,000 to 2.9 million HIV-related deaths by 2030.
These estimates are only for HIV. Impact on tuberculosis, malaria and other health conditions are similarly awful. Mathematical fashion designer Brooke Nichols from Boston University has an assessment of these additional consequences of Trump’s policy on exputcounter.com.
Back in the US, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Trump on health and human services, continues to play quickly and freely with the science of infectious diseases and vaccination, undermining key immunization programs and pressing key anti-Vaxxers to make his bidding. Most recently he Named David Heer– Who does not have a medical degree and practice medicine without a license to manage the study of vaccines and autism, alleged relationships that have already been exhaustively decayed. It is in the midst A large set About the outbreaks of measles in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, with a total of 819 cases, 97 other isolated cases in other states across the country.
The consequences of the anti-Vaxx administration agenda may not be more disturbing. Last week, paper Matthew KIAN from Stanford and his colleagues published in Jam He warned that even at the current levels of measles vaccination, it would probably become endemic again, with 851 300 measles cases over the next 25 years, as well as cases of lifting other diseases – for example, 190 new cases of rubella, 18 polyo and eight diphtheria.
In their study, KIAN and his colleagues predicted 851 cases of neurological complications after Measles, 170 200 hospitalizations and 2550 deaths. This is the status -ku. With the further decrease in vaccination levels, cases will increase even higher. For example, a 10 percent reduction in MMR vaccination can lead to 11.1 million new measles cases. A more significant decrease in risk vaccination pushes other baby infections, such as rubella and polio, back to endemic. These are the diseases we won decades ago in this country. Now we invite them back, not through some failure of science and medicine through intentionally memory and neglect.
Trump and his servants are the Kennedy sector, Secretary of State Mark Rubio (oversees Pepfar), Elon Musk, as well as the inspirer of the project and the current management department and the Russell WuTS budget – on their hands. There is a direct line from their decisions to the death of men, women and children, tens of thousands, and probably millions when they continue their long march on institutions.
The late Bob Rafski, Comrade from Action, Once said it At a political burial for Mark Fisher, who died of AIDS in 1992. I quoted his words formerlyAnd they, again, are better than the ones I can collect:
(W) Chicken alive can no longer speak, the dead can speak for them. Mark’s voice here is with us, as well as the voice of the peris, who mourned the Athens soldiers two millennia ago, and whose death he was complicit, but who had a nobility to say that their memorial was all the earth.
Let the whole earth hear us now: we ask, pray, we demand that this epidemic end.
Not only that we can live, but so that Mark’s soul can finally rest.
In anger and in the mountains, this battle did not end until we are all safe.
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When I write this, I think about Bob, about Mark, about the dead, which I have mourned over the years. Thousands, millions who will die from the policy of this administration have life; They have names; They have friends and family who love them. Let them be not just figures in scientific newspapers – give them a memorial to all the earth.
Chaos and the cruelty of the Trump administration reach new lows each week.
Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” was inflicted by the world economy and created another constitutional crisis at home. Civilian officers continue to abduct the university students from the streets. The so-called “opponents” fly abroad in a mega-tour against the ruling of the courts. And SignalGate promises to become the first of many incompetence scandals that expose violent violence at the heart of the American Empire.
At the time when elite universities, powerful law firms and influential media capitulate Trump intimidation, Nation more determined than if -no one earlier to contain a powerful account.
Only in the last month, we have published a report on how Trump raises his program of his mass deportation to other countries, exposed the administration’s appeal to the lawsuits to comply with his repressive agenda, and strengthened the votes of brave activists aimed at universities.
We also continue to tell the stories of those who retreat against Trump and Musk, whether on the streets in the growth of protest movements, in the town halls across the country or in critical state elections – for example, a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race – which gives a model of confrontation and prove that Musk cannot acquire our democracy.
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