Atul Gawande

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. 🧵

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...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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...

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

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...

Speed of response is everything, and it's still lagging far behind. Essential explainer on the Congo Ebola outbreak from @JeremyKonyndyk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Vital read from @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social in @nytimes.com The closure of USAID & disregard for the human toll was the 1st step in a dark shift in US aspirations toward naked power and extractive self-interest. It's leaving the US friendless, isolated, and weaker. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

My sister, Meeta, and I are heartbroken to report that our beloved mom, Sushila Goswami Gawande, a joyful force of nature and a pediatrician for three decades in Athens, Ohio, died on December 17. We will miss her dearly. Her obit describing her remarkable life: www.legacy.com/legacy/sushi...

Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?” www.npr.org/sections/goa...

My wife, Kathleen: “In the future, we will just be data. We will be just ones and zeroes. But I will be a one. Not a zero.”

This is your must read this week. Read this. It is about leukemia and the powers and limits of science and the terrifying dangers of the turn against it. It is human and excoriating and beautiful. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.