Dr. Atul Gawande
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Dr. Atul Gawande’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Musk says no one can name a single person who died, quote, not a single name.
And he also tried to claim that USAID is responsible for COVID and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The 700-plus thousand that have been estimated to have died at the end of a year since the USAID closure comes from a couple of different sources.
One is a Boston University estimate.
A separate one comes from an international study published in The Lancet looking at the impact USAID had over the last 20 years, saving 92 million lives.
projecting based on the cuts that have occurred, how many deaths have occurred.
And they came up with a very similar number.
This is what pissed off Elon Musk.
Ro Khanna cited the estimates that 4.5 million children, just children, would die by the end of 2030.
The precision of the numbers is a question, but it's clear it's at minimum tens of thousands.
in 2025, and very likely hundreds of thousands.
Yeah, a big part of what USAID did was humanitarian response, disaster relief for tens of millions of people who are fleeing war or in conflict zones or were driven out by floods and those kinds of things.
WHO estimates that where 80 million people were reached by emergency health services
in 2024 that number in 2025 dropped by more than 50 million people that included for example 14 million people who were victims of severe acute malnutrition
2.5 million of them were children, like a peanut bar that gives you your calories for the day, distributed by community health workers that the US manufactured but was cut off.
That cut the death rate to less than 1%.
That's just one category.
Another one is childbirth.
Many of these people who are being forced out of their homes are pregnant.
They deliver thousands of babies and die when they have no services.
Showing 1–20 of 179 · page 1 of 9
Next →