US EditionFive years after COVID, North Texans continue to navigate toll of the pandemic
- Under President Trump, the NIH and CDC have begun cancelling billions of dollars in funding for research related to the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiple directives aiming to cut off grants focused on subjects viewed as conflicting with the administration's priorities.
- The Trump administration's actions follow a broader agenda to increase fossil fuel production and scale back efforts to address climate change, including considering the elimination of the EPA's scientific research office, potentially resulting in the firing of over 1,000 scientists.
- These actions are being taken because the administration believes the research funding is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities, and that the Biden EPA appointees have major ethical issues and were beholden to radical stakeholder groups.
- Dr. Lisa Patel, Executive Director of The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, called the new guidance 'catastrophic', saying it would have a 'devastating' impact on much-needed research and that 'This is an administration where industry voices rule and prevail'.
- The halting of climate and health research, along with research on COVID-19, China, DEI, transgender issues, and vaccine hesitancy, is raising concerns about the potential for a dangerous knowledge gap and the ability to prevent and address future health impacts and pandemics.
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H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics - Overpasses For America
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. The government’s rationale is that the Covid pandemic has ended, which “provides cause to terminate Covid-related grant funds,” according to an internal N.I.H. document viewed by The New York Times. But the research was not just about Covid. Nine of the terminated awards funded …
‘The Pandemic Is Over’: All NIH COVID Grants Eliminated Under New Directive
by Emily Kopp A two-sentence paragraph in a new guidance document to National Institutes of Health grant managers brings a five-year surge of COVID-19 research funding to a screeching halt. Chief grants management specialists at each of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers have been instructed to “completely excise” grants that clash with the Trump administration’s priorities. A Tuesday NIH directive broadens the categories of research that cla…
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Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal
Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature. Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.
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