Hacker NewsFeb 14
CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/trump-cdc-cuts-include-epidemic-intelligence-service-outbreak-investigators/
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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

STAT
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHNov 3, 2022

Medical populism and the COVID-19 pandemic
"...features of medical populism as a style by political leaders in times of pandemic:
1. Simplification of the pandemic
2. Dramatisation of the crisis.
3. Forging of divisions
4. Invocation of knowledge claims.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2020.1807581

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Medical populism and the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper uses the vocabulary of ‘medical populism’ to identify and analyse the political constructions of (and responses to) the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the Philippines, and the United State...

Taylor & Francis