Current leadership has silenced our government’s public health organizations–such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Those organizations are no longer allowed to provide information to the public, nor to hospitals, doctors or local public health agencies.
Not only that, but current leadership has also withdrawn the US’s participation in the World Health Organization (WHO), which tracks health data and coordinates crucial responses epidemics/pandemics across the world. That means that scientists, doctors, public health professionals and the public might not get access to to most up-to-date information about potential epidemics or pandemics that could spread to the US. Not only that, the US was one of the top contributors of scientists, data and funds that allow the World Health Organization to save so many lives.
Just in the US, there are two different bird flus currently spreading through farms across the US, airborne tuberculosis (TB) is spreading in Kansas and there has been a resurgence of the Sudan strain of Ebola in Uganda. We need to take our public health information into our own hands.
Check out the Crash Course Outbreak Science video series on YouTube.
If you haven’t already watched the Crash Course Public Health series and you’ve got some time, I recommend taking a look at that series, too.
