This is the third and last feature story in a series supported by the @pulitzercenter.org about how the Trump Administration's budget cuts are harming global health. You can find all three stories here: www.science.org/topic/tags/c...

Community health workers in Guinea are still wearing polo shirts and vests with an American flag and the USAID logo on it. But they no longer have jobs.

“I beg Donald Trump!” said one of them, Alhassane Camara. “The small children, they die!” www.science.org/content/arti...

Key finding: The 17 now-fired members of ACIP have on average published 49 papers on vaccines or vaccination.

The 8 members who succeed them averaged only 11 papers. Four of them have never published about the topic at all.

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Be sure not to miss the last bit of
@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social's short, strange interview with NIH chief Jay Bhattacharya: www.science.org/content/arti...

@science.org not only picks a Breakthrough of the Year, but also several Breakdowns -- the things that went wrong in science.
Here's my story about how, 5 years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, we seem to have forgotten its lessons. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is the only road to Kamituga, the epicenter of the mpox epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now imagine having to transport vaccines this way. (And not having nearly enough doses in the first place.)

Photo by @cohenjon.bsky.social, story here: www.science.org/content/arti...

'Eating the Earth': really interesting essay with stunning photography about the $2 trillion global food trade. www.science.org/content/arti...

Misinformation is one of the reasons people are flocking here.
It's also an emerging—and sometimes struggling—area of scientific research. @kakape.bsky.social published 3 fascinating stories about it just before the U.S. election. Worth a read if you missed them. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪