Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social)

@agawande.bsky.social Jul 21, 2026, 10:11 PM

13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

rollingstone.comTrump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of PowerThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.

@agawande.bsky.social Jul 13, 2026, 6:46 PM

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

@agawande.bsky.social Jun 28, 2026, 6:12 PM

Shock, awe, and economic fall out: During the first 9 months of 2025, ICE operations led directly to 668,000 lost jobs across 86 U.S. metro areas, according to new economic analysis.

When you remove immigrant workers, you undermine native workers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | ICE Is a Job Killer Everywhere It Goes

@agawande.bsky.social Sep 1, 2025, 11:23 AM

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

@agawande.bsky.social Jun 27, 2025, 11:15 AM

“Foreign aid has changed nothing.” “These are not our problems.” “The system is dysfunctional.” “The countries we aid are corrupt.” “Other countries aren’t doing enough.”

I have heard all these arguments too. @nickkristof.bsky.social succinctly answers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems

@agawande.bsky.social Mar 13, 2025, 12:05 PM

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

thelancet.comContribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on ImmunizationSince 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

@agawande.bsky.social Feb 27, 2025, 8:59 PM

4. USAID’s contract supporting deadly outbreak prevention, detection, and response, including Ebola and Bird Flu, in 50 countries – terminated.

@agawande.bsky.social Feb 27, 2025, 8:59 PM

2. All tuberculosis programs, including the Global TB Drug Facility – terminated.

@agawande.bsky.social Feb 27, 2025, 8:59 PM

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

@agawande.bsky.social Feb 6, 2025, 8:59 PM

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.