U.S. Retreat from Global Health Leadership Exposes Pandemic Preparedness Gaps
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Dhruv Khullar
Summary
The article, written by Dhruv Khullar, critiques the Trump Administration's retreat from global health leadership, as exemplified by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's argument that the U.S. should stop surveilling for new pathogens and developing vaccines. Using recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola as case studies, the piece argues that abandoning pandemic preparedness and global health surveillance is shortsighted and dangerous, especially given the interconnected nature of modern disease threats.
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· 3 pulledThe piece argues that the country should largely stop trying to surveil for new pathogens, assess the risk they pose to humans, or develop vaccines and drugs to manage them.
These activities, the authors suggest, mostly serve to keep scientists happy and funded.
Dhruv Khullar on how the recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of the United States' retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.
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