These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding

As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri Province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground. The reason: The Trump administration slashed its funding last year, in part due to conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19. Established in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health , the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network was conducting research into vir