Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.

Uncontained epidemics don’t stay put

  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I remember when Obama handled an Ebola outbreak extremely effectively and also created a pandemic playbook that Trump summarily ignored.

  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah historically we’ve paid for that because we have the most to lose from a global outbreak, like if the whole global economy was shut down because of a virus, could you imagine how bad that would be financially for us?