Dan Blumenthal
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President @Novocardia Division of CVAUSA & Cardiologist @MGH; MD/MBA. father of 3 boys, husband. Harvard trained (@HMS/HBS). tweets=own
Trump: "If we didn't hit within 2 weeks, they would've had a nuclear weapon. When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen."
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at @USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna has introduced the Drain the Swamp Act. It will ban White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists or becoming lobbyists during the Trump term.
Basic science is inspired by curiosity, accountable to evidence, and subject to peer review. Politics should have no role.
@yellowstonegal @Farzad_MD @yellowstonegal Hello, here is your unroll: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1890587… Have a good day. 🤖
1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
