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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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I've been listening to Cross Country Checkup, a CBC call-in show, on my local NPR affiliate for the past hour – with callers from Canada and the US sharing their perspectives on Trump's threat. Honestly one of the best hours of radio I've ever heard, so so good. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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📜The order has come through. 🪚All but "mission critical" USAID staff have now been placed on leave. While retaining access to their emails, they are not authorized to conduct any agency business or access files. ⌛️Effective as of 11:59 EST Sunday the 23rd. In other words, immediately.

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AP reporting mass USAID firings, at 11:59 p.m. tonight "all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave." apnews.com/article/usai...

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BREAKING: A U.S. federal judge has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue dismantling USAID, placing thousands of staff on administrative leave and pulling 1,400+ from overseas posts.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Trump Appointees Fire Hundreds at U.S.A.I.D. Working on Urgent Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u.... "Although USAID was created by Congress & lawmakers appropriated government money for foreign aid this year, few, if any, Republican lawmakers have raised objections to the aid freeze & the job cuts."

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"'The gap that has been filled by the U.S. cannot be easily matched by anybody,' said Dr. Ntobeko Ntusi, the chief executive of the South African Medical Research Council." Great article detailing the dilemmas by @stephanienolen.bsky.social

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1/This chain links to documents and repositories bearing witness to impacts of USAID stop work orders, contract terminations and staff reductions. Some relate to litigation. Most come from aid, advocacy & development industry organizations or beneficiaries that have a stake in the terminated work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

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"In only five of the 90 cases were patients vaccinated against measles. The rest were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status, the department said...Gaines County had one of the highest exemption rates in [Texas] last year, with more than 13% of K-12 students exempted."

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February issue is online! Better late than never. #idsky wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

"We couldn’t believe it when we went into the office on 27 January and were told we had a stop-work order...Mental health work needs a proper exit strategy: you have to communicate to the patients and end the work safely. Having to stop suddenly was shocking. It just adds to the survivor’s trauma.”

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"PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor and editorial integrity...We will not approve changes to terminology or removal of data that compromise the scientific accuracy of content. Requests to remove legitimate authors from manuscripts violate our authorship policies..."

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Judge clears path to pull USAID personnel off the job: thehill.com/regulation/c... "U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols dissolved his order temporarily staving off the purge and declined to provide further relief, contending that the plaintiffs’ initial assertions of harm were 'overstated.'”

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"Around 1 in 5 people with measles end up hospitalized, 1 in 10 children develop ear infections that can lead to permanent hearing loss, and about 1 in 1,000 children die from respiratory and neurological conditions."

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🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico. Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow. “This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better” My latest kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Just spent the last few hours writing another big catch-up on what's happening behind the scenes at the NIH and CDC. It'll be in the AM Inside Medicine. Subscribe for free if you'd like to receive it! open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Someone I know had to cancel a similar Black History Month reception at their federal workplace this month to comply with the President's Executive Orders.

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The cat bird blu study finally appears : www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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"Administration revealed...it has not restarted any funding or allowed the resumption of work...it reviewed thousands of affected State Department & USAID grants, contracts, & cooperative agreements, & concluded that nearly every one should be suspended or terminated" www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments