{"id":67875,"date":"2018-02-03T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67875"},"modified":"2018-02-03T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T21:07:06","slug":"atlantic-the-center-for-disease-control-is-about-to-fall-off-a-funding-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67875","title":{"rendered":"(Atlantic) The Center for Disease Control Is About to Fall Off a Funding Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/10\/panic-neglect-pandemic-funding\/543696\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'0',r'552224'\">Last October<\/a>, I wrote that a large pot of money, dedicated to protecting the world from infectious diseases, was about to run dry.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, Congress\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.path.org\/publications\/files\/APP_GH_Security_rpt_rev.pdf\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'1',r'552224'\">appropriated<\/a>\u00a0$5.4 billion to fight the deal with the historic Ebola epidemic that was raging in West Africa. Most of that money went to quashing the epidemic directly, but around $1 billion was allocated to help developing countries improve their ability to detect and respond to infectious diseases. The logic is sound: It is far more efficient to invest money in helping countries contain diseases at the source, than to risk small outbreaks flaring up into large international disasters.<\/p>\n<p>But the $1 billion pot, which was mostly divided between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and USAID, runs out in 2019\u2014a fiscal cliff with disaster at its foot&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2018\/02\/cdc-funding-pandemics\/552224\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, I wrote that a large pot of money, dedicated to protecting the world from infectious diseases, was about to run dry. In December 2014, Congress\u00a0appropriated\u00a0$5.4 billion to fight the deal with the historic Ebola epidemic that was raging<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67875\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,175,168,119,104,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67877,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67875\/revisions\/67877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}