Dr. Atul Gawande

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And it made the enterprise incredibly unpopular.

He thought this was going to be, you know, a weekend and we'll move on, and it didn't turn out to be the case at all.

The TB program, which dealt with a long-term effort to try to reverse what is still the biggest infectious killer in the world, and there are drug-resistant strains that are now evading our current arsenal of TB drugs.

That work involved a project that I was part of that brought chest x-rays

that were read by an AI reader for countries that didn't have a radiologist.

You would screen, get a molecular test the same day and be able to be put on treatment and follow up so that you stay on your medicines because you have to stay on your medicines for a year.

Those trials, the innovation was stopped.

The programs to roll out the innovations that have been created were stopped in South Africa, in Mozambique, in other places like that.

where you had high rates of TB, and they have now seen the tuberculosis deaths starting to rise, the cases have grown by multiples, and they had the names of people who've died.

Let me put it this way.

In the memorandums of understanding that they now...

make with countries where they are putting some foreign assistance in, you don't see commitment to goals like we're going to reduce the overall mortality for children in the world.

We're going to stop neglected tropical diseases that the US has led the way in eliminating conditions that ranged from leprosy to river blindness.

It's unimaginable that this is a group of people who would commit to such goals.

They see them as woke.

They see them as signs of weakness instead of taking a ruthless... Their view of the world... Wait, wait, wait.

The worldview, the actions that you see, are that you believe the world is an amoral, ruthless, Mad Max world of the dominators and the dominated.

And it is woke to believe that we can come together and solve problems.

It is naivete and worse, it's a distraction from the fact that we're in a battle and the world is governed by those who are strong dominating the weak.

I couldn't agree more.

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