James GleickMar 3, 2025

What Musk and Trump are giving the world:

—Up to 18 million new cases of malaria per year and 166,000 deaths;

—200,000 children paralyzed with polio and hundreds of millions of infections;

—one million children left to die from severe acute malnutrition;

—more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg.

Urgent reporting from Apoorva Mandavilli, and props to the NY Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E4.qM8C.BTMGBeYjExG3&smid=url-share

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid

The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

The New York Times
Show threadChirag Sharma
@gleick Making America great again is in context to degrading quality of life everywhere else
Mar 4, 2025 at 6:18amWeb