Dr. Atul Gawande
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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The vaccine advisory committees needed to approve vaccines are not functioning at this point, and it's going to take a while to recover that.
CDC can recover it because they still have an institution.
They still have budgets that can be restored.
It will take a while to build the expertise and infrastructure.
USAID is a shell and will be hard to bring back.
It will take time for countries to trust that every election does not become a change in the goals in the first place.
It takes
years to eradicate polio, years to build their surveillance for pandemics, years to reduce malnutrition in the world.
And if we're divided about that and that becomes political fodder, then the institutions can't function.
We won't be able to make a way forward.
So I'd say the number one thing to restoring capacity is getting back to a place that we believe that these kinds of institutions are what we all want.
The approach of Doge was like the approach he's taken with companies like Twitter.
Take over, slash and burn.
If anything's broken, we'll fix it after.
And that continues to this day to be his argument.
only he's destroying in the name of efficiency and left no efficiency behind at all.
And he came in believing he could cut $2 trillion out of government.
And it hit the shoals of USAID, this obscure agency accounting for less than $10 per American taxpayer per month.
And within weeks, suddenly it became apparent that
that there would be massive loss of life.
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