BVD’s fatality rate is 30%–50% and it’s spread through direct contact with the body fluids of infected persons or those who have died from the disease.

Dr. Maneji Mangundu who just returned from the outbreak’s epicenter was asked how Trump’s humanitarian aid cutbacks affected the ability to contain BVD. He didn’t hesitate. He warned that Trump’s cuts to USAID have reduced the funding necessary to battle the disease, and, as a result,  BVD now poses an international public health risk.  

Doctors Without Borders warned that Trump’s cuts will cripple the ability to deploy qualified medical experts at BVD’s epicenter. As a VP at a medical technology company focusing on public health and defense against infectious diseases said, “the most effective intervention is identifying … infected individuals, contact tracing, isolating, and treating them.” Sadly, Trump’s medical aid cuts make that very difficult. As Dr. Mangundu lamented, “by now we would have had a lot of teams on the ground responding. But the limitation of resources makes it difficult.” 

If Trump repeats his abdication of presidential responsibility during the Covid pandemic, America will suffer the most BVD deaths and cases of any other country. At the end of Trump’s first term, America was the world’s richest country but it suffered more Covid cases and deaths than any other country including China, whose population is more than four times larger. The U.S accounted for just 4.2 percent of the world’s population but 30 percent of COVID cases and 19 percent of COVID deaths. Twelve other countries, including China,  were returning to work while the U.S. remained shut down.

While China was providing thousands of virus-fighting supplies to countries on three continents, the U.S. was so short of protective gear that it had to ask other countries for help. Yet, in true form, Trump boasted, “We have so many companies making so many products” and “We have millions of masks being done. We have respirators. We have ventilators.” 

During Covid, Trump abandoned seven decades of U.S. leadership in 

fighting infectious diseases including Ebola and six other global pandemics. In contrast, Obama stopped Ebola at its source. He sent more than 3,000 health officials to West Africa as part of a 10,000 international team that he helped organize. They provided treatment units, hospital beds, medical equipment, contact tracing, health care training, burial units and travel restrictions. Cases fell by 80 percent from their peak levels.

He also led the fight against Ebola at home by preparing hospitals, treatment centers, health departments and health care workers to combat a possible outbreak. In total, just 11 cases and two deaths were reported in the U.S. 

Having failed to control COVID’s spread, Trump did what he always does: he flooded Americans with massive misinformation and shifted blame to Obama, governors, the media and, most bizarrely, the World Health Organization, whose funding he suspended.

He predicted the mortality rate “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” that it would “disappear like a miracle,” that  “everybody infected is getting better.”

Even before Covid, Trump was warned that America wasn’t prepared for the next pandemic and he saw the results in the record Covid cases and deaths under his watch. Now he’s witnessing the beginning of the spread of the deadly BVD. Yet he’s intent on continuing to disassemble the countries defense against infectious diseases. Only the sitting Republicans can stop him. Where the hell are they?

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Although there have been only two outbreaks, and none in the US, Nipah is considered a public health threat because of its high fatality rate, potential for human-to-human transmission and the absence of approved vaccines or treatment. 

So how would Donald Trump come to our rescue if it or when, not if, any pandemic hits the U.S. again? The answer is poorly given his brutal cuts to medical research and his dismal Covid-19 performance. 

Trump recently announced  cuts of $4 billion in medical research funding at universities, hospitals, and other scientific institutions. Researchers have had to drop crucial projects and many consider switching fields due to Trump’s cuts and layoffs. The cutscanceled 383 clinical trials affecting research into COVID-19,  cancer prevention and heart and brain disease. 

Not to mention that Trump has sent our best medical scientists to China, weakening our ability to fend off pandemics and rapidly propelling China’s medical advancement beyond ours. The assault on our health will continue until Congressional Republicans find the integrity and courage to stop him. 

Trumps ruinous actions and failure to stop the Covid pandemic during his first presidency is alarmingly similar to what he’s doing today. At the end of his first administration, America had 4.2% of  the world’s population, 25% of Covid cases and 19% of Covid deaths. Shamefully, he abandoned over seven decades in which America played the leading global role in fighting infectious diseases, including Ebola, tuberculosis, malaria, yellow fever, AIDS, avian influenza and Zika. It was an unconscionable abdication of responsibility. He ignored the Defense Production Act, which gives the president the responsibility to force production and distribution of materials needed to arrest a pandemic. 

In 2014, President Obama coordinated world leaders to stop the Ebola virus at its source, sending more than 3,000 health officials to West Africa as part of a 10,000 team. Cases fell by 80% from peak levels. He also led the fight against Ebola at home, resulting in just 11 cases and two deaths in the United States. 

In sharp contrast, Trump abdicated his responsibility to the states, telling governors they’re on their own to find the critical equipment needed to fight the Covid, admonishing them that the federal government is “not a shipping clerk.” 

Having failed to control the spread of COVID, Trump turned to massive misinformation and  blamed  Obama, governors, Democrats, the media and, most bizarrely, the World Health Organization, from which he recently withdrew.

Trump predicted the mortality rate “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero” and would “disappear like a miracle” and that everybody “infected is getting better.” His BS led Americans to abandon caution and suffer more infections and death. 

This man checks all the boxes that medical professionals use to diagnose a sociopath. Whether his claims are lies or delusions doesn’t matter. Either way, he is out of control. Why the hell do we keep him as our President? 

Although Trump can’t help himself, the Republicans in Congress know exactly what they’re doing. They can stop the carnage, but they don’t because the value their Congressional and anatomical seats above their constituents and the country at large. So their complicity will be repeated when, not if, the next pandemic hits. 

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