Musk’s Reckless Ebola Cuts Could Lead to Deadly Pandemics
Musk’s Reckless Ebola Cuts Could Lead to Deadly Pandemics “We’re actively weakening the entire global infrastructure we built to keep us safe from these threats.” David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief Bio | Follow Mother Jones illustration; Valerie Plesch/The Washington Post/Getty; Imago/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, standing in front of President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire running a blitzkrieg against the US government, acknowledged that he had made a mistake—that in going after the US Agency for International Development, the foreign assistance program that he has all but destroyed, he accidentally ended the Ebola prevention project it ran overseas. Musk claimed the error was quickly fixed and there was no interruption in service. But former and current USAID staff quickly told the Wa...