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Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists
After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.
WIRED has spoken to a number of scientists who are familiar with the myriad agencies and departments which handle virology, epidemiology, and public health—including the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and USAID—including some who have been forced to resign in recent days. On January 17, just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Health and Human Services announced—following years of allegations from Republicans, Kennedy, and others that it was likely responsible for the pandemic—that EcoHealth Alliance would be debarred, and no longer eligible to receive federal grant money. In a February 3 statement, the White House justified closing down USAID and laying off its staffers around the world by citing “waste and abuse,” including, among a variety of other reasons, “millions to EcoHealth Alliance—which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab.”
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