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Is this research not research you think is accurate enough to support the claim that ending USAID results in excess mortality?

www.thelancet.com(26)00008-2/fulltext

Official development assistance (ODA) accounts for the majority of humanitarian and development assistance in the world's most vulnerable countries and has played a pivotal role in advancing global health. We aimed to comprehensively evaluate the impact of ODA funding on mortality across the past two decades, and to project the potential consequences of current defunding trends.
Methods
We conducted an integrated retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis using longitudinal panel data from 93 low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). First, we estimated the association between ODA per-capita funding and mortality outcomes from 2002 to 2021 using a two-ways fixed-effects multivariable Poisson regression model with robust standard errors, adjusted for all relevant demographic, socioeconomic, and health-system covariates. We then assessed age-specific and cause-specific effects, performing extensive sensitivity and triangulation analyses to test the robustness and causal interpretation of results. Finally, we integrated the retrospective impact estimates into validated country-level microsimulation models to forecast mortality under three defunding scenarios up to 2030: a business-as-usual trajectory, a severe defunding scenario, and a mild defunding scenario.
Findings
Higher ODA funding levels were associated with a 23% reduction in age-standardised all-cause mortality (rate ratio [RR] 077; 95% CI 070"085) and a 39% reduction in under-5 mortality (061; 049"075). ODA funding was associated with large mortality declines in major communicable diseases: 70% for HIV/AIDS (RR 030; 95% CI 024"039), 56% for malaria (044; 035"056), 56% for nutritional deficiencies (044; 030"065), and 54% for neglected tropical diseases (046; 036"059). Significant reductions were also observed in mortality from tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, lower respiratory infections, and maternal and perinatal causes. Forecasting analyses projected that ongoing reductions in ODA funding could, under a severe defunding scenario, result in 226 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 163"293) additional deaths across all ages by 2030, including 54 million (41"68) among children younger than 5 years. Under a mild defunding scenario"defined as a continuation of current downward trends"the projected excess deaths would be 94 million (95% UI 62"126) overall and 25 million (18"32) among children younger than 5 years.
Interpretation
ODA funding has played a decisive role in reducing preventable mortality across LMICs over the past two decades, and the abrupt withdrawal of this support threatens to cause millions of avoidable deaths, reversing decades of progress in global health.

Dan,

#31

"With how many proven cases? Zero?"

Again...you should stop saying this sentence in your posts. Here is at least one.

Now you've added Michigan to your criteria.

What's next?

Must be left-handed and have red hair.

www.justice.gov

Don't deflect and talk about something I said. I'm not talking about me. I am referring to your "zero" comment you make over and over.

You should stop using that line because "zero" is not accurate.

Here's Michigan:
electionfraud.heritage.org

Only 5 convictions since 2017. None in 24 or 25.

So much for "plenty".

Dan,

Here's one from AP.

apnews.com

Bruce Bartman pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting after casting a 2020 ballot in his deceased mother's name.

He received five years' probation.

That alone disproves your claim of "zero proven cases."

@#19 ... That's my take on it. ...

Yeah, and the MAGA trolls seem to be reveling in denigrating his win.

Pres Trump has even called into question election results.

Trump Reacts to El-Sayed Win, Calls Detroit Third World'
meidasnews.com

... President Donald Trump, reacting to the primary win of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, attacked Michigan's Wayne County, home to Detroit, in a Truth Social post Wednesday, calling the area "one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States" and describing it as "strictly Third World."

Trump repeated long-standing claims that the county's elections are fraudulent, alleging without evidence that more votes being cast than there are actual voters and warning of "fake mail-in ballots" ahead of November's election. ...


What might they be afraid of?

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