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This posts says in passing without further explanation that the NIH is "under-funded". I looked up their budget, they get roughly 40 Billion dollars a year. I
by pmorici 6y ago
This posts says in passing without further explanation that the NIH is "under-funded". I looked up their budget, they get roughly 40 Billion dollars a year. I'm not sure what rational one uses to call that underfunded but that doesn't seem like they are some small agency starved for money.
- Jedd 6y ago> This posts says in passing without further explanation that the NIH is "under-funded". I looked up their budget, they get roughly 40 Billion dollars a year. I'm not sure what rational one uses to call that underfunded but that doesn't seem like they are some small agency starved for money. Compare the cost of this kind of pandemic, which was generally agreed as likely to happen at some point. Or consider it in a per capita context -- about US$100 per citizen of the USA. Given this, and given what the USA spends most of its money on, I agree with TFA - the NIH is woefully underfunded.