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Useful graphics in this NY Times article on the numbers and geography of the outbreak: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/well/us-measles-record-ou...

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Your comment suggests that you fundamentally misunderstand the process of scientific discovery and innovation, how the American scientific ecosystem works, or how the economic and …

If you have any doubts that Trump 2.0 will destroy the American scientific workforce for years to come, this summary of cuts at NSF makes the case very strongly. Engineering: -57% …

I already had "deny access to life saving medicines and public health improvements" on my Trump 2.0 bingo card. What do I win besides greater probability of serious viral infection…

This is a real and important challenge, which is even further exacerbated if you work on microbial organisms. I can easily think of a half dozen times in my own research where we t…

See also: "World Health Organization scales back work after funding cuts" • https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

You mean like this? https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/trump-sharpie-hurric...

The US government is playing "hide the data".

And a related piece on this article in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/science/covid-coronavirus...

That's a bizarre interpretation if you bother to take a few minutes to look at the flagged/dead posts on 'newest' of late. Almost anything policy-adjacent gets shut down almost imm…