Coming Down With Something

“America is walking away from global health leadership, making the entire world less safe—including us.” Americans vastly overestimate the amount of money our government spends on foreign aid and we vastly underestimate the extent to which that money is spent on programs that ultimately benefit Americans. We may find out the hard way. Craig Spencer in The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Diseases Are Coming. (Today, Marco Rubio announced the official cancelation of 83% of USAID programs.)

+ And if the diseases come, what will the diseases find? A population increasingly dubious of vaccines and science. WSJ (Gift Article): In Rural Texas, a Measles Outbreak Hasn’t Swayed Vaccine Skeptics. “Despite a child’s death, residents say personal choice—not public-health policy—should guide their decisions.”