https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/07/elon-musk...
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/07/elon-musk...
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
I understand feeling emotional about this, I really do. But the important bit is that if you make a big claim "millions of people died", you have to back that with actual evidence, not models.
I'm operating in good faith asking people to show data. There is no reliable data supporting the claim that millions of people died because usaid was canceled. That's all.
I think that this is an unrealistic ask, right now. Over the next 5-10 years enough time will have passed such that we can get more accurate numbers, but right now, all we have are estimates with wide confidence bounds (but narrower than they were last year).