Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect … so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention." pic.twitter.com/bq4Ipp4Zvj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 26, 2025
I know it’s not actually funny but I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Am I dreaming? Is this real?
Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician with decades of experience in global public health who has worked as an epidemiologist in Africa and survived Ebola himself, outlined the harm that the mistake had actually caused. “On January 29, Uganda reported an Ebola outbreak,” he wrote on X. “Normally the U.S. would’ve very quickly sent one of our Ebola experts to help the response. But this time, we didn’t. Because we couldn’t. Because this administration wouldn’t let them go right when this outbreak was declared.” He further noted that officials in Uganda had tried to call the White House for days but received no response, and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which handles Ebola prevention in the U.S., is losing hundreds of “frontline experts” thanks to DOGE.
Jesus…