It Is No Exaggeration To Suggest That Marburg, Ebola Or Some Other Viral Dread May Slip Into The US Unnoticed -- During Tangerine 2.0's "Hiatus Period".

We have mentioned that CDC and NIH are presently forbidden from offering new grants (or renewing existing ones), and may not travel, to discuss science matters -- at all, likely until well into February.

Even though this is someone with family (by marriage) connections to the outgoing Biden Administration, she is a well-respected medical doctor, and she is absolutely correct that these idiotic, mostly "show-boating" moves, by Tangerine 2.0 -- are endangering US citizens' very lives. Here's the conservative UK Daily Mail, on it all:

. . .Dr Psaki continued: 'As I’ve watched the Trump administration announce a series of actions that undermine our ability to detect and respond to biological threats... I wonder: Who is protecting the American people from Marburg right now?. . . .'

Dr Psaki said: 'The Marburg outbreak has continued to evolve since the transition last week, but we have little visibility into what is happening.

'Scientific experts across the US government have lost access to many of the tools they would normally use to protect Americans.'

The WHO warned her team of the Marburg outbreak in Tanzania on January 11, citing 'reliable reports from in-country sources' and said [Ed. Nota bene] now nine six people had been sickened, eight five of whom had died.

By the morning after, her team had conducted a risk assessment — which found the risk was significant. . . .

[It is chaotically unclear whether Tangerine can "impound" funds Congress has already directed be spent. In his attempt to "impound and redirect" funds Congress said could NOT be used for his wall, last time around. . . the federal courts ruled he couldn't seize other military funds.] And all of this, before Tangerine ordered the US to "withdraw" from WHO -- whatever his addled lil' pea-brain might think that would mean. It is a certainty -- he is putting American lives at risk, all for his Kabuki theatre antics.

Of course, much of what we do in being involved with WHO, is to try to help be "our brothers' and sisters' keepers. . ." but it cannot escape notice -- that this effort benefits ordinary Americans, with travel warnings, etc., if nothing else. Damn.

Disgusting, he is.

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