It was simply a mistake, this whole thing with the curfew – this is the message that the Trump administration’s associates tried to convey to the medical -scientific world yesterday. The relaxing message comes after last week all the subordinated health organizations received from a memorandum that freezes all communication out of the organization, unless the president’s approval has been approved.
This memorandum also stopped all the acquisition of these organizations, including the NIH, the National Research Institute that rolls $ 47 billion a year, employs 20,000 employees and ends grants for another 300,000 researchers in the US and outside. Longer until February 1, NIH did not know, among other things, what will be the fate of clinical experiments that are underway, whether samples can already be preserved from experiments, and whether there will be food to feed the laboratory animals. Know if they can publish the influenza monitoring data and the Kurona.
In a new memorial sent yesterday, the NewH Chief NIH, Dr. Matthew Mali (Trump’s appointment from recent days, announced until his permanent appointment is valid after the Senate’s approval), that you can continue to purchase for critical clinical trials. , Last week, they talked about “the hardest work week they had in the Corona period,” said following the clarification that now things “a little closer to normal”, at least when it comes to experimentation.
This does not mean that the freezers were finally canceled. There is currently no approval to recruit new employees, even those who have already received offers, and there are no new projects and new grants, at least until February 1.
A hard atmosphere
NIH associate officials told Globes about a severe atmosphere in the organization. A official, who moved on one of the government health organizations until a few years ago, said: “We know the atmosphere of threat and fear of Trump’s first term. Of officials.
“Most of my connections in the organization are now engines to talk to me, but one of them wrote to me from his private email that the atmosphere is like a totalitarian regime. He wrote: ‘We must be very careful!
A factor, who has previously worked in NIH and maintained connections with scientists in the institution, said to Globes: “We do not know if Trump deliberately tries to demolish medical research in the US, or perhaps just convey a threatening message. He wants to put in civil servants to a constant state of fear that he may “go crazy” at any moment and stop everything, and say thank you for all the semi-normal behavior they receive from him. ”
As an example, he gives Trump’s decision to retire from the World Health Organization, which undermines the World Medical Medical Echo-Systems and is now considering. Trump said this week at the conference that “we were offered $ 39 million instead of 500 million (as a US membership fees in the organization. , But I said no, because it (the decision to retire) will be so popular, that I don’t know if it will be well accepted. The things there a little. ”
The Burning Theme – abortions
Dr. David Shulkin – formerly responsible for the US government on the VA Ministry, which handles former US military soldiers and soldiers, and is currently a senior consultant to the Excellent Foundation, headed by Dr. Uri Geiger – sounds more evacuated about the moves. This is despite the fact that he is fired by Trump in a Twitter message (today X). “I am probably the only senior in the system that survived at the time in the transition between the Obama government and that of Trump,” he says. “In every government turnover, the senior executives can also be replaced so they can put their agenda. You, as Israelis, must be familiar with it. Simply at Trump it happens very quickly.
“The appointments for the health system require the confirmation of Congress, and it can take a good few months. So Trump says – ‘I don’t want to leave the space exposed to decisions by people who don’t want us to succeed.’ Expected, like what happened in the NIH this weekend.
What is Trump feared they will pass before he can stop it?
“I’m not in his head, but I think the most controversial and burning issue between the two parties is in the field of abortion, and there was a fear of being transferred to research in the field.
“No one should be surprised that Trump makes quick and dramatic changes. “Every political decision has a price. If the people start to feel that what Trump does is harmful, they have the opportunity to curb it in the half-term clergy.
Threat to the scientific status of the US
The NIH communications freezing, and the threatening retirement from the World Health Organization, are not the only places where Trump is seen as someone who goes against the scientific authority in the medical world. His appointment to the Minister of Health is Robert P. Kennedy Jr., which is considered to support many medical conspiracies. Additional Trump’s appointments for leading government organizations such as the FDA, NIH and CMS (government insurer) are all in the past that have previously expressed opinions as opposed to the existing health system, especially during the Corona period. Compared to Kennedy, they are considered legitimate science and medicine, but Kennedy is the one who is expected to head the pyramid.
Kennedy even said he would make far-reaching changes in FDA, US Food and Drug Administration, noting that “people there should start pack.” The FDA is now considered the world’s leading independent regulatory body in the field of medication, food and public health policy. Many regulatory authorities, including Israel, carry eyes to it. FDA is less independent in the US will open an opening for other authorities, such as the European Authority, to fight it for the premiere.
Freezing Financing for War in AIDS and TB
As part of Trump’s decision to stop most of the US international assistance, funding for World War in AIDS and TB. Operations.
To this day, Republican President Gorage Vu has been invested. Bush, about $ 100 billion in AIDS prevention, and it is estimated that it saved the lives of 26 million people. Today, about 20 million people in 55 countries receive drugs through this program, and if they do not receive them, they may become infectious patients to infectious patients and eventually.
$ 4.7 billion has been invested in the tuberculosis program, and it also has documented achievements. We have previously written that it has absorbed a serious injury to Trump’s firstnd, and achievements in the field of suppression of the tuberculosis epidemic were lost. The same scenario also seems reasonable in the current term.
Trump raised the question of why only the US is investing in these programs, but a number of doctors emphasized that this is a valuable investment – not only in preventing global morbidity, but in creating strategic relationships with partnership countries and building the American scientific reputation in the world. Other countries can take responsibility for it, Doctors say, but there will be a price in terms of American scientific leadership in the world.
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