Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.
The CDC is closely monitoring an "unknown disease” that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Monday.
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The Mary Sue on MSN‘How will we even know?’: Americans are realizing the connotations of Trump’s attack on WHO and CDCWith America facing its first measles death since 2015 and a mystery illness sweeping through the Congo, Americans are realizing what it means that Donald Trump cut them off from WHO and is purging the CDC.
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Musk claims USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have restarted after DOGE cuts. Officials disagree - ‘There was a waiver for Ebola, but USAID funds have never been back online,’ a current official said
Elon Musk said USAID's "Ebola prevention" was "accidentally canceled" but "immediately" restored. Health specialists following the current outbreak in Uganda raise doubts about the restoration.
Elon Musk made alarming comments about Ebola prevention measures during President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting.
Instead of instilling “efficiency” at the CDC, the Trump administration seems only to have only injected blind decision-making and incompetence to the critical agency.
So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately ... have withdrawn from WHO [the World Health Organization], and muzzled CDC [Centers for Disease Contro],” Konyndyk wrote on X.
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