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RFK, Jr. Laying Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy
Forbes ^ | March 29,2025 | Bruce Y. Lee

Posted on 03/30/2025 8:55:38 PM PDT by cgbg

The U.S. is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic with more and more long COVID cases emerging. Bird flu is a growing threat. Measles outbreaks have been occurring. Antibiotic-resistant organisms continue to spread in healthcare settings. So what do you do next if you are in charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is supposed to protect the health of humans in the U.S.? How about lay off the entire staff of the U.S. government’s Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy?

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They tried to force us to take their vax.

Now it is payback time.

Bye bye Mengele clones.

We are so done with your endless fearmongering.

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1 posted on 03/30/2025 8:55:38 PM PDT by cgbg
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To: cgbg

As they’re heading for the doors, shake them down to see if we can get back some of the billions they stolen and blown.


2 posted on 03/30/2025 9:02:00 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I'm really not an expert on these offices or their policies, but I am so entertained by RFK’s actions. I can envision him showing up dressed like Jesus, knocking over tables, whipping the bureaucrats.
3 posted on 03/30/2025 9:04:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: cgbg

Sleep around and find out.


4 posted on 03/30/2025 9:09:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: Jeff Chandler

These include a lot of very highly paid scientists and doctors—who think they have the right to order around the peons.

They just found out that the natives are revolting.

Lol.


5 posted on 03/30/2025 9:12:13 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg
HIV policy is really very simple:

Understand and accept that the large intestine is NOT a sexual organ.

Grasp that fact and HIV will be wiped out in a generation.

6 posted on 03/30/2025 9:14:36 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: cgbg

This better be the first of a long list of administration actions...


7 posted on 03/30/2025 9:18:19 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: dragnet2

Yup—they can “follow the science” heading to the unemployment lines.

This is sweet.


8 posted on 03/30/2025 9:19:09 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Piled higher and deeper.


9 posted on 03/30/2025 9:20:53 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: logi_cal869

Yup—the new two to three months are going to be rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, department after department, agency after agency after agency.

—Eliminate the grants
—Eliminate the people who administer the grants
—Eliminate the contracts
—Eliminate the people who administer the contracts
—Fire a whole bunch of supervisors and middle management along the way


10 posted on 03/30/2025 9:21:57 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: HIDEK6

Just think of what impressive resumes they will have.

Lol.


11 posted on 03/30/2025 9:22:46 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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He fired the “policy” wonks - He kicked the b’crats out.

Fine by me.


12 posted on 03/30/2025 9:23:20 PM PDT by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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To: cgbg
"Now it is payback time."

I am enjoying them suffering the same pain that they inflected on 330 million Americans. Fire more.

13 posted on 03/30/2025 9:26:30 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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Re: "The stated mission of the OIDP is to provide strategic leadership and management, while encouraging collaboration, coordination, and innovation among federal agencies and stakeholders to reduce the burden of infectious diseases."

Re: "LinkedIn post from Chloe Loving, MPH, CHES, CPH, who worked as a Public Health Analyst and Committee Management Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS."

Whatever this is, it is time to stop funding it.

Also, no more pay checks for people with a Masters Degree in Public Health and a job title that requires 24 words!

14 posted on 03/30/2025 9:27:37 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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What exactly did these disease people do for their salaries? We know how diseases get passed along. We know that once in a while there’s a successful treatment, and the rest of disease that doesn’t respond is just part of life.

So they need all these people to freak us out, scold us and force us to do stuff. Female relatives can do that for free.


15 posted on 03/30/2025 9:34:19 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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16 posted on 03/30/2025 9:37:18 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: cgbg

This rag makes Pravda look like Encyclopedia Britannica. What ridiculous propaganda.


17 posted on 03/30/2025 9:38:25 PM PDT by montag813
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To: cgbg

The author, formerly of Johns Hopkins, worked on the COVID vaccine and runs a company that gets NIH funding to model COVID pandemics. Sounds like he’s worried about layoffs cutting into his funding cash cow.


18 posted on 03/30/2025 9:59:00 PM PDT by Fedora
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https://www.phicor.org/our-story

. . .Seeing the lack of opportunities for those who wanted to do computer/AI and systems work prompted me to establish PHICOR in 2007, while I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In the ensuing six years, our PHICOR team grew and grew. Our team occupied “The Annex ‘’ in the University of Pittsburgh and included high school students, college students, graduate students, post-docs, and different staff members. We did a variety of work in many different areas. During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic, our team was embedded in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, using computer modeling to help with the national response. We worked on different ways of controlling healthcare-associated infections and the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, including our work with CDC’s SHIELD and PROTECT projects. Our team also traveled the world, working in places like Niger, Benin, Senegal, Chad, Kenya, Mozambique, Thailand, Vietnam, and India. These projects have included working with various Ministries of Health and major international organizations such as UNICEF, Gavi, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Medicins Sans Fronties (MSF) otherwise known as Doctors Without Borders (MSF), PATH and the World Health Organization (WHO).

In 2013, I was recruited to Johns Hopkins University and moved our PHICOR Team to Baltimore, Maryland. There, our PHICOR Team built and ran the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC). For over eight years, the GOPC’s mind-meld of faculty, staff, students, and other personnel was dedicated to developing and utilizing systems approaches, methods, and tools to address obesity and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The GOPC’s work spanned in over 20 countries, accounted for over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and implemented real world impact that influenced policy.

Then starting in 2018, a couple major academic institutions in New York City began recruiting me. I took this as signs from the Universe that PHICOR’s next destination should be The Big Apple and all the unique opportunities that this amazing city would bring. Eventually, we chose to move PHICOR to the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy in late 2019, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic. Once we got there, we were quickly immersed in COVID-19 pandemic work. Our team developed models to help decision makers better understand a wide variety of issues ranging from better understanding the burden of COVID-19 to the development and implementation of different COVID-19 policies and interventions such as vaccination, treatment, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). The PHICOR Team’s COVID-19 modeling work and results garnered significant attention from the media. For example, in February 2021, The New York Times adapted one of our models to develop an interactive tool to help readers estimate when different levels of herd immunity may be achieved. In July 2021, The New York Times worked with our PHICOR team to publish an interactive map to visualize county-level immunity against the delta variant across the entire U.S. We also established a new CUNY Center, CATCH (Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health), with a mission to develop and implement new technologies and communication approaches to help inform decision making in health and public health. In 2021, our PHICOR Team began building the AIMINGS Center, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and serves as the AI Center for the NIH’s Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) Consortium. . .


19 posted on 03/30/2025 10:00:45 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Jeff Chandler

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20 posted on 03/30/2025 10:04:47 PM PDT by matthew fuller (PDJT/DOGE You must get rid of ALL Labor Unions in the government.)
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