Trump’s cuts to public health could spread infectious diseases here

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The Trump administration’s “chaotic” cuts to U.S. public health agencies could lead to more infectious diseases crossing the border into Canada.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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“The cuts are designed to simplify HHS and make it “more effective.” “We will eliminate the entire alphabet soup of the entire department while maintaining its core functionality by combining them into a new organization called “Healthy America or AHA.”

These cuts are the thousands of employees who have already taken it through voluntary acquisitions or letting go. The total losses totaled 20,000 full-time employees, and were eliminated from 82,000 employees.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the day of his inauguration in January to remove his country from the World Health Organization (WHO). US media reported this week that Trump plans to cut aid to Gavi, a global vaccine coalition that provides vaccines to children in the poorest countries.

The impact of cutting cuts on their own health institutions from the U.S. and globally, from the U.S. and globally, Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director, said at the Canadian Medical Association Health Association summit.

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“It may take some time to see all the damage being done, but the damage is really huge.”

Frieden said Trump’s decision to terminate funding will affect immunizations around the world, flu tracing, “polio virus and tuberculosis, HIV, HIV and malaria, and more.”

Frieden said the United States quickly shifted, and “sudden and chaotic” changes in health policy could also have a direct impact on Canada.

The CDC’s mission “is to protect Americans from threats, whether they are natural or man-made, whether they are from the United States or anywhere in the world, whether they are infectious or anywhere else.”

What we see is really worrying because the risks to the world and the risks to the United States are huge

“The move just announced in the past 24 hours will undermine the CDC’s ability to protect Americans,” he said.

“Now, what does this mean for Canada? Well, you may face the spread of infectious diseases – measles, whooping cough (pertus cough), drug-resistant tuberculosis – from the United States,” Frieden told the audience.

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“You will also face the spread of infectious diseases around the world, which is predictable and will increase due to these inadequate changes.”

He called for more to Canada to do, “strategic and generous partner” in the Global Health Program.

“I know it’s difficult, as an American, given what our administration is doing, it’s hard for me to ask you to do that,” Frieden said.

“But the truth is that there are huge challenges around the world and the damage caused needs to be mitigated.”

In the past, Kennedy mistakenly accused children of autism of measles, mumps and ruby ​​vaccines, who encouraged people to add vaccines in measles cases, but also claimed in a Fox News interview that the vaccine would cause “die every year” and “die every year” and “all diseases themselves can cause shocking health officials.”

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Frieden described the vaccine as “one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and the implications of undermining trust in the vaccine are huge.”

“What we’re seeing is really worrying because the risks to the world and the risks to the United States are huge,” Frieden said. “There is a decrease in vaccine research. The intake of vaccines is reduced. Support for global vaccines is reduced.”

He suggested that the Trump administration is taking a “post-true” approach to achieving public health. (Oxford Dictionary describes the latter truth as a case where an adjective “with or expresses that objective facts do not have much influence on emotional and personal beliefs in shaping public opinion.”)

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“Some of the facts we hear from the government are a real point of view, but the facts are stubborn things,” Frieden said.

Newfoundland and Labrador Prime Minister Andrew Furey said in a follow-up panel in Canada that Canada cannot object to evidence-based medicine.

“There is an erosion of trust within the system,” said Furey, who is also an orthopedic surgeon. “And if we don’t reflect on this, if we don’t understand this, and if we can’t use the language to heal it, it will be a more problematic problem than the actual tariff itself.”

“This is my concern for the contagiousness of the health care system.”

He added: “It’s not the way Joe Rogans in the world does that.”

“Trying to figure out how to talk to your audience is the way to do this and recognise that citizens have problems and how to answer these questions at their level will be very important in the next four years.”

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