The RFK Jr.-led Health and Human Services Department is cutting over $11 billion in COVID-19-related funding—funding that supported public health work and infrastructure. This includes firing almost 25% of its full-time workforce and cutting regional offices in half. Check out the latest:

 

👉 RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again' by ignoring COVID

 

These cuts will damage the important research being done in this field, as there is still much we don’t know. But one thing we do know is that COVID has never simply “gone away.”

 

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