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Sometimes people say something I agree with in a way which is so annoying it makes me want to disagree with them. It's bad USAid stopped funding this but can y
by fancyfredbot 2y ago
Sometimes people say something I agree with in a way which is so annoying it makes me want to disagree with them.
It's bad USAid stopped funding this but can you tell me that in a less infuriating way please?
I mean here obviously the bug creates itself through an evolutionary process. USAid had been doing great work to make this less likely, and now they've stopped. That doesn't mean the cuts create the bug!
- tmottabr 2y agoWe cannot because the funds cutting DO create Drug resistant strain.. Not directly, but by creating the exact scenario that cause then to be created.. The USAID funds cut will cause patients to have to stop their treatment half way because there are no more money to buy the drugs required to their treatment.. This is the basic recipe to a drug resistant viruses... When you start a treatment the first to die are the copies of the virus that are susceptible to the drug while the more resistant copies take longer to die.. This is why is so important to keep a treatment even after the symptoms ended, there will still be copies of the virus in your body that are resistant to the drug but not enough copies to cause the disease.. If you stop the treatment half way the copies that are resistant have the opportunity to multiply again, but now the drug will have less effect on it.. Repeat this process enough and you get a strain of the virus that is immune to the drug.. Repeat the process again and again with other drugs and you get a strain that is immune to everything.. With the number of patients affected by USAID cuts means it is practically guaranteed that a drug resistant strain will happen..