I am reading "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. I'm in the middle of the chapter on the first known Ebola outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan in the 1970s. The book makes for gripping reading (especially if you like medical history, as I do). It was published over 30 years ago, but the cautions in it are still relevant today. I am also feeling sad as I read it, because the US was one of the very few world leaders that could investigate the Ebola outbreak, especially given the kind of extreme lab conditions required to study the virus itself. The CDC lent investigators and equipment and worked closely with the WHO and other countries. The CDC lab in Atlanta was THE place to send blood and tissue samples. Needless to say, the US also spent a lot of money on this. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk and others (Vought, Kennedy) have made sure we no longer have the skilled staff nor money to do that kind of work. It truly is terrifying to think how bad off we will be when the next pandemic happens.
I am reading "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. I'm in the middle of the chapter on the first known Ebola outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan in the 1970s. The book makes for gripping reading (especially if you like medical history, as I do). It was published over 30 years ago, but the cautions in it are still relevant today. I am also feeling sad as I read it, because the US was one of the very few world leaders that could investigate the Ebola outbreak, especially given the kind of extreme lab conditions required to study the virus itself. The CDC lent investigators and equipment and worked closely with the WHO and other countries. The CDC lab in Atlanta was THE place to send blood and tissue samples. Needless to say, the US also spent a lot of money on this. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk and others (Vought, Kennedy) have made sure we no longer have the skilled staff nor money to do that kind of work. It truly is terrifying to think how bad off we will be when the next pandemic happens.
It’s called “Fleet Week”
‘And the Band Played On” is fantastic!!!
I was very affected by that movie. I still think about the ending of it.