OK, almost ten years. The Gizmodo article was from September, 2016. If you're promising to rid the world of disease, even "attempt" to rid the world of disease, and "dramatically improve" the lives of every child born that year, it seems like you should have eradicated something by now. The timeline here is vague, but "make sure we don’t miss a single soul" suggests that the initiative should have eliminated most disease in something like fifty years (or forty years from today). Elsewhere, they said "The goal of the program is to help cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the year 2100." I don't want to be unreasonable -- it's not like you can expect a 20% or even 10% reduction every decade -- but shouldn't we be seeing something substantial by now? Based on some quick searching, the organization appears to have done some good work, but nothing on the scale needed, nor is there much evidence that the money was better spent than NIH dollars are, certainly not better enough to make up…
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