Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children.

[applegrove]

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children.

That is his legacy in this world.

— Tom Hearden (@followtheh.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T19:19:26.981Z

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. brown / black children. Elon doesn't care

[delisen]

2. Mass killings. nt

[J_William_Ryan]

3. "Elon doesn't care"

Trump and Republicans don’t care either.

[OhioBack2Blue]

9. Neither does 75 million American Republicon voters

In fact, they self-report being gleeful about this outcome.

[Renew Deal]

4. I'd like to see the source and how they came up with that number

[sheshe2]

14. Some info here:

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.

Gawande—a surgeon, author, and distinguished professor in residence at Ariadne Labs, which he co-founded—served in the Biden administration as the assistant administrator for global health at USAID. He wrote a Nov. 5 article in the New Yorker about the devastating impact of the loss of USAID funds around the world. He was also featured in an accompanying short documentary called “Rovina’s Choice,” which he co-executive produced, that told the story of how one mother living in a Kenyan refugee camp tried to save her severely malnourished daughter after U.S. support dried up.

In the article, Gawande cited an analysis in The Lancet that estimated that USAID assistance—aimed at combatting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and polio, reducing maternal and child deaths, and fighting malnutrition—had saved 92 million lives over two decades.

The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

Much More here:



https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

[misanthrope]

5. Elon Musk: mass murderer

Sounds about right.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Musk killed this children

There is a special place in heck for this asshole

[lame54]

7. That act alone made Trump...

Ineligible for the Nobel Peace Prize

[AloeVera]

8. "Rovina's Choice", a heartbreaking documentary about one mother's struggle.

Which is repeated hundreds of thousands of times in poor countries. It reveals "what goes when aid goes". It's only 22 minutes long. It will make you cry and want to throw stuff at smug Rubio's face. The New Yorker had this story too. The docunentary may be based on that article.

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[Solly Mack]

10. Links

Harvard Study: USAID Shutdown Has Led to Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths — 9.4 Million Projected by 2030


A joint study by Harvard University and the Center for Global Development has confirmed what aid workers warned about a year ago: the dismantling of USAID under the Trump administration has resulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths worldwide.

The study, released on the one-year anniversary of the agency’s effective shutdown, projects the death toll will reach 9.4 million by 2030 if aid programs are not restored. The figure accounts for disrupted vaccine distributions, shuttered maternal health clinics, and collapsed food assistance networks across 47 countries.

The scale of the catastrophe deserves a moment of pause. This is not a natural disaster. It is not a war. It is a policy decision made in Washington that has killed more people than most armed conflicts — and it barely held the news cycle for 48 hours before the Iran war consumed all available oxygen.

Meanwhile, Mother Jones has reported that Russell Vought — the Office of Management and Budget director who helped gut USAID’s funding — used money from the agency’s raided budget to pay for his own personal security detail. A federal court has cleared the way for Elon Musk to be deposed over his role in the dismantling through DOGE.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030

It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination of medical programs in Afghanistan, and the end of numerous programs tackling malnutrition and preventable diseases around the world.

The slashing of US foreign assistance was followed by cuts by the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and other developed nations, which are set to take effect this year and next year, compounding the impact.

Now, a new study published in The Lancet medical journal aims to quantify the human toll of those budget decisions – projecting that global aid cuts could lead to at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.

Impact of two decades of humanitarian and development assistance and the projected mortality consequences of current defunding to 2030: retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths -Harvard

The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.

“We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed ‘public man-made death,’” Gawande wrote.

Some of the info is from late 2025 and some from earlier this year. In case anyone wants the info.

[yellow dahlia]

11. Thanks for the links.

[Solly Mack]

15. You're welcome.

Trump, Musk/DOGE, Vought, Rubio, GOP in Congress.

All of them are guilty. ALL of them.

[yellow dahlia]

17. Mass murder.

[Solly Mack]

20. I think so.

And it would be nice, for a change, for the guilty to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

[flvegan]

12. None of them were ever likely to buy one of his shitty cars.

Nor one of his even (believe it or not) shittier robots. Therefore, he doesn't care.

[dalton99a]

13. Making Elon Musk one of the worst mass murderers in recent times

[mzmolly]

16. "Donald Trump's destruction of USAID..."

Muck was serving at the behest of the demon in the Oval Office.

[GoodRaisin]

19. Which he gladly did.

[mzmolly]

22. Yeah, they're so 'pro-life'

[republianmushroom]

18. When are people going to understand, republicans don;t give

a damn about children ounce they are out of the womb.

[La Coliniere]

21. This psychopath is a problem for all of us...

as so many of his fellow billionaire bastards also are. Human beings are nothing but obstacles to their endless greed.

[Botany]

23. Elon is an Afrikaner who was raised on apartheid and sees dark skinned people as his enemy.

I believe Peter Thiel has the same background too.

Cruelty is the point and death of black people as good goals.

BTW does that # include all the deaths from diarrhea because we stopped shipping anti diarrhea
medicines to the poor.

[Johonny]

24. Musk always been the same person

And never been a "good" visionary.

[sakabatou]

25. Hit him with 600k lawsuits for each kid he's killed