This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social
With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment
When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
#phep #publichealth
#phep #publichealth #globalhealth
Go on, you’ll never guess
Yup, there are socioeconomic disparities in who gets harmed when coal plants are allowed to spew methylmercury into the air
This shows, of course, a “lack of distributional justice”
2/2
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The MAHA Administration's hypocrisy, yet AGAIN:
It urges families to eat healthy food but then cuts $141 million from "the part of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children that lets low-income families buy fruits & vegetables"
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Honestly, this is just the beginning. As we get closer to the election stuff like this will ramp up. And on November 3rd, and the days following, it's going to be bad
Hazardous air pollutants emitted by United States (U.S) coal-fired power plants have been controlled by the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) since 2012. Sociodemographic disparities in traditio...
To make America healthy, produce in a poor child's diet should be the last thing to go
www.medpagetoday.com
Nathan Myers
Nathan Myers
Prof Gavin Yamey
Nathan Myers
Prof Gavin Yamey
This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social
With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment
When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
Nathan Myers
Prof Gavin Yamey
Bradley Perry
A Congolese aid veteran on the Ebola response: “like hyenas on a dead body.” $1B last time, big salaries for outsiders, almost no local hires—so people started calling it a business.
https://www.celinegounder.com/p/ebola-congo-fear-indexed-aid-localization
In our open letter to Trump/Rubio/RFK Jr we say:
“The strategy of quarantining at-risk US citizens at a new facility in a foreign nation poses a threat to US health security & represents a fundamental breach of the government’s duty of care and & constitutional right of US citizens to return home”
news.cgtn.com/news/2026-06...
The 7th cholera pandemic has been going on for 65 years, and no one notices: Global Cholera Control Efforts--June 2026
open.substack.com/pub/johnacar...
Future historian department:
-Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire.
-Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world.
The book writes itself
