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CBHagman

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12. Even worse, Musk gloated about closing USAID...
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:09 AM
13 hrs ago

...and there has been a steady stream of reports on how many people are dying and might die because of the loss of lifesaving aid.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” [Atul] Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.

“We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed ‘public man-made death,’” Gawande wrote.


There is more at the link, and here is another report on the same topic:

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts

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