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hatrack

(59,578 posts)
Fri May 11, 2018, 08:35 AM May 2018

WH Dumps NSC Global Health Security Officer Same Week Ebola Outbreak Confirmed In DRC

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Tim Ziemer, a member of the White House’s National Security Council (NSC) who was in charge of global health security, abruptly left his post on Tuesday (May 8), the Huffington Post reports. An NSC spokesperson tells the publication that the change reflected a reorganization, and that Ziemer departed “on the warmest of terms.”

“It is unclear in his absence who at the White House would be in charge of a pandemic,” Beth Cameron of the Nuclear Threat Initiative tells the Huffington Post, calling it “a situation that should be immediately rectified.” Cameron was a senior director for global health security and biodefense on the previous administration’s NSC staff.

The departure occured the same day that the World Health Organization announced a new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During a 2014–2015 outbreak of the virus that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa, the US Congress had set aside funds to combat the epidemic; in another announcement made Tuesday, the White House proposed that Congress take back $252 million of that allocation.

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https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/54535/title/Head-of-Global-Health-Security-Ousted-from-White-House/

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WH Dumps NSC Global Health Security Officer Same Week Ebola Outbreak Confirmed In DRC (Original Post) hatrack May 2018 OP
more steps backwards..so depressing mountain grammy May 2018 #1
An Ebola epidemic/pandemic Clarity2 May 2018 #2

Clarity2

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2. An Ebola epidemic/pandemic
Fri May 11, 2018, 09:31 AM
May 2018

would be a great excuse for Trump to shut down those borders while killing a lot of brown people. Let's just call it what it is.

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