MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: When America sneezes, does the whole world catch a cold?

Why not paying attention to what’s happening right under our beaks may risk a new pandemic

In today’s letter: Is a combination of Make America Healthy Again cutbacks, Project 2025 mass firings, and turbocharged deportation policy the wrong prescription for future pandemics?

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“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” Donald Trump famously said of the then-novel coronavirus in June of 2020.

Luckily, cooler heads prevailed during the first Trump administration: the Operation Warp Speed effort to develop a Covid-19 vaccine was one of the most impressive public health achievements of modern times, and despite a few hitches, it is still paying dividends.

But faced with a potential new threat, has the current White House forgotten about all that? Or worse, is current policy a prescription for disaster?