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From a resource perspective, it's fascinating how much money was incinerated on COVID. Just in legislative health spending, and in spending by the Exectuive yo
by tenpies 4y ago
From a resource perspective, it's fascinating how much money was incinerated on COVID.
Just in legislative health spending, and in spending by the Exectuive you're talking $1.2 TT dollars spent (with much more still allocated)[1].
Imagine if just 1% of that went towards cardiovascular health. We could have seriously moved the needle on the cause of diseases that consistently kills orders of magnitude more people. And sure, COVID had three months when it was the leading cause of death[2]. But just heart disease, kills nearly as many people every month.
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[1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org https://www.covidmoneytracker.org
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-of-death-in-the-us-average-number-daily/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-o...