Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

Today we examine the real-world cost of dismantling America's public health infrastructure,

the dangerous pseudoscience driving RFK Jr.'s health agenda, and the contradictions fracturing the Maha movement from within.

For those looking for a quick overview,

the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today,

include The Rachel Maddo Show,

All In with Chris Hayes,

Scientific American,

Today Explained, Democracy Now,

the PBS News Hour, and Brittany Page.

Then, in the additional deeper dives have of the show,

there will be more in four sections.

Section A, The Damage Done dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections. Section A, the damage done, section B, ideology, and the misinformation machine, section C, inside the Maha Coalition, and section D, how a country becomes under-babied.

And now, on to the show.

Music under-babied. And now, onto the show. Eighteen patients from that hentavirus-stricken cruise ship have been brought back to the United

States now. What do you think the odds are that the Trump administration will contend

with that risk in ways that are sane and organized and even vaguely scientific.

This is the Trump administration that fired thousands of scientists from the CDC, scientists in particular who work on infectious diseases and all sorts of global health concerns.

Also, they fired the people who

worked specifically on the issue of viruses spreading on cruise ships. Yeah, what do we need

those folks for? Get rid of them. It would usually be the CDC that would be the lead

agency in the whole world on a crisis like this. But under Donald Trump, there's not even a

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