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Like the ebola program they "turned off and then back on again" ? "I disagree fully, completely, wholly, that they recognized the mistake and put it back," s
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Like the ebola program they "turned off and then back on again" ?
"I disagree fully, completely, wholly, that they recognized the mistake and put it back," says Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency physician and professor at Brown University School of Public Health, who has worked on Ebola for more than a decade and responded to Ebola outbreaks in Africa.
Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts
~ https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/27/g-s1-50929/elon-musk-ebola-usaid https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/27/g-s1-...
Within USAID's Global Health Bureau there was a team of people that specialized in high risk outbreaks, like Ebola. "Virtually all of those people have been pushed out of the agency, and they have not been brought back. Only a very small handful — like low single digits — remain from what had been something like a 30 person team,
Many regulars at HN understand how poorly complex systems in the real world respond to hard outages and cold restarts.