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—USAID shutdown means a halt to many clinical trials around the world, crippling US efforts to investigate an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, and halting efforts to block malaria.
—PEPFAR, which has saved an estimated 25 million lives by distributing HIV drugs in Africa, is effectively frozen.
—Grants to the National Institutes of Health have effectively been ended.
— National Science Foundation’s budget to be cut from $9 billion to $3 billion. The agency may be facing layoffs of somewhere between a quarter to half of its workforce.
—Layoffs at CDC expected to run to 40 percent or more.
—Postdoctoral researchers are suddenly going unpaid. Some job offers are being withdrawn.
—Many NIH websites are AWOL. For example, the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health has vanished.
—Trump officials are blocking the publication of new research on bird flu.
—NOAA and the National Weather Service are reportedly full of “chaos and confusion” over whether they can work with other countries. Note: hurricanes and climate change do not respect national boundaries.
—The CDC has been blocked from working with the World Health Organization. Note: pandemics do not respect national boundaries.
—NASA staff were ordered to scrub their websites of mentions of women and indigenous people.
—USAID shutdown means a halt to many clinical trials around the world, crippling US efforts to investigate an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, and halting efforts to block malaria.
—PEPFAR, which has saved an estimated 25 million lives by distributing HIV drugs in Africa, is effectively frozen.
—Grants to the National Institutes of Health have effectively been ended.
— National Science Foundation’s budget to be cut from $9 billion to $3 billion. The agency may be facing layoffs of somewhere between a quarter to half of its workforce.
—Layoffs at CDC expected to run to 40 percent or more.
—Postdoctoral researchers are suddenly going unpaid. Some job offers are being withdrawn.
—Many NIH websites are AWOL. For example, the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health has vanished.
—Trump officials are blocking the publication of new research on bird flu.
—NOAA and the National Weather Service are reportedly full of “chaos and confusion” over whether they can work with other countries. Note: hurricanes and climate change do not respect national boundaries.
—The CDC has been blocked from working with the World Health Organization. Note: pandemics do not respect national boundaries.
—NASA staff were ordered to scrub their websites of mentions of women and indigenous people.
