does also target illegal drugs seeping into texas. but in the meantime, 388 people have been killed in mass shootings in texas on governor abbott s watch while he has rolled back gun restrictions. so briefly, back to that nearly $500 million that was diverted down to the border in texas, it was taken from various different departments and they were reimbursed with surplus covid relief funds. the governor took more than $200 million from the department of health and human services, and that led some people to say hang on, is he taking money away from health care. his office tells me that is quote, completely inaccurate. the department itself tells me all of their health care programs are fully funded. budgets for health care, mental health care have shown a modest uptick over the past couple of years, and the governor s spokesperson also tells me that he works hard to increase funding and access to mental
seat belt. will that prevent mass shootings? no. further, i think having seen also kind of having gone through the covid crisis, being in the hospital for that, what i saw in dealing with covid is countries, communities, turning to science, turning to public health and saying what should we be doing, is there evidence, what should we be doing to stop the disease from ravaging our communities, killing our family members, what do we need to be doing. i would love to see the country, the communities, the state governments do the same thing for this epidemic of firearm deaths. unfortunately, as you know, the gun violence trend has been such that now it is the number one injury-related cause of death among young people in the united states. there are mountains of evidence for policies that can prevent these things. things like background checks, like red flag law, like ghost guns and any politician who is not willing to back these
and just briefly back to the half billion dollars diverted down to the border, it was taken from a bunch of different department and see they were then reembursed, largely, with surplus covid relief funding. unclear why that delicate dance was entirely necessary. anyway, he took more than 200 million from hss which led some people to wonder hang on, is he taking money away from mental health? now his office tells me that is, quote, completely inaccurate. the department tells me they re fully funded. the budgets have risen modestly in the past couple of years. his spokesperson says governor abbott works hard to increase access and funding but don t forget, in that leaked table of access to mental health, texas, dead last. erica? nick watt, appreciate it. thank you. outfront next, a cnn exclusive. we ll take you to the scene where russian commanders accused of committing horrific crimes against humanity. plus, former president obama s
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hundreds of millions doses to go to waste would be unethical when tens of thousands of people are still dying daily of covid. 0ne people are still dying daily of covid. one of those signatories is helen clark, prime minister of new zealand from 1999 up to two theories are late and also served as the un aid development programme for eight years. the numbers are staggering, hundreds of millions of doses going to waste. talk us three more on what you are calling for. i co chair the independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response as requested by the wealth health organisation when wealth health organisation when we reported in may we said then that high income countries like yours and mine had ordered twice as many doses as they needed and they needed to redistribute them. we said that i,000,000,000 could redistribute them. we said that i,000,000,000 could have been distributed by september and a billion by the middle of next year and the g7 met in the uk