Viral posts manufactured a lot of things that just weren’t true.
NYC health commissioner already debunking this misinformation.
BUT this event DOES highlight something that is really important… 🧵
In ‘normal’ times—that is, before we slashed USAID and CDC—we would’ve had a lot of boots on the ground responding to the Ebola outbreak in Uganda and the Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.
Guess what, now we don’t.
Because with the new Trump admin restrictions, we couldn’t.
In ‘normal’ times, USAID would’ve help establish border screenings at the airports to detect cases before they could get on a plane.