Article On Federal Health Agencies Being Cut

[Baron2024]

"A Nobel Prize-winning scientist is still waiting on a crucial research grant from the United States government that was supposed to start weeks ago.

A fired public health worker at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries that she and her family will lose their housing as her pay runs out in mid-March.

And federal agencies overseeing the nation’s attempts to control bird flu are rapidly trying to rescind terminations of employees who are central to that effort.

The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to federal health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of bird flu but a historic measles outbreak centered in West Texas and the worst year for the seasonal flu in more than a decade.

“If these actions continue, they could have deadly consequences,” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health."

The complete article is at the link below--

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-consequences-health-agencies-reel-130047119.html

[Quakerfriend]

1. Having worked for the NIH, this just infuriates me!

My DH works for big tech, covering all HHS divisions.
They were told last Friday that they cannot start any new contracts with any of the agencies under HHS-
just work on existing projects.

[Baron2024]

2. It Is Outrageous

The NIH is the Crown Jewel of American Biomedical Research. They are going to kneecap an essential part of the US economy.

So much of our scientific and technology based economy depends on federally funded research. For example, the Internet was originally developed by DARPA. The Biotech Industry probably would not exist today without NIH research that helped start it.

Here is a link to a good article about the dismantling of federal scientific research--

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoohRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVtrs0jr2mSjB-gILt0M8jRAP-u9Pi496R09p_tuI1cziqe6t-I6rAdH-Q_aem_dHjmOCDbadPqSPw