RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again' by ignoring COVID

It has only been five years, and more than 1.2 million American deaths, since we were all locked inside during a pandemic that President Donald Trump repeatedly said would simply “go away.”

Now Trump’s Health and Human Services Department, with help from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, is cutting COVID-19-related funding for state and local public health departments by at least $11.4 billion, they announced Wednesday in a statement.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the HHS said in a statement. “HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again."

Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, told CBS News, “This ... is money that had been going to state, local, territorial, tribal health departments across the country, and as we know, as was the case with a lot of COVID funding, it was not just supporting COVID-related programs, but many other things.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/27/2312868/-RFK-Jr-wants-to-Make-America-Healthy-Again-by-ignoring-COVID

Speaking as one who lost a family member to COVID my response is fuck you very much.