The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to lose about $1.3 billion in funds as a result of last month’s federal debt ceiling negotiation that were initially allocated through Covid-19 supplemental funding, the agency shared with CNN.
This is especially bad because climate change will increase the mutations and spreading of new deadly diseases, whether it came from melted permafrost or zoonosis from contact with livestock or wildlife. This decreases the power to fight that.
This is bad, and there are too many people that think this is good. No organization that is centered on public health should be getting budget cuts unless they were audited and caught committing fraud.
CDC should never, ever suffer a B-B-Billion dollar budget cut. We are so boned.
But I’m sure we’ll end up with a new aircraft carrier or something.
