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Patty Murray: “We've lost 4,000 expert staff.”

Featuring: Patty Murray, Democratic | U.S. Senate Washington

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I'M DEMANDING ANSWERS: How Cuts to NIH Hurts Patients and our Country

Published | Video Starts at 04:32

So I'm just really concerned that you have even terminated NIAID funding for a group that was studying the exact type of hantavirus that caused the deadly outbreak that we're dealing with right now. We've lost 4,000 expert staff. I know you're scrambling to rehire, but it just seems like we have dismantled our infectious disease research and development of pipeline and we will pay the price. (04:32–04:35)

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