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Inside the Ebola Outbreak That Has Experts Sweating (w/ Dr. Craig Spencer)

2026-05-21 News & Politics
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Jonathan Cohn is joined by Dr. Craig Spencer to break down the growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, why global health officials are sounding the alarm, and how Trump-era cuts to public health infrastructure could affect the response. Spencer is an emergency medicine physician and Ebola survivor. During the historic 2014 outbreak, he treated patients and then contracted Ebola himself, became one of the most visible voices during that crisis. Dr. Spencer explains why this outbreak has experts more worried than past Ebola flare-ups, how Ebola actually spreads, and why it is very different from a respiratory virus like COVID. Read more from Jonathan Cohn: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-decimated-our-global-health-network-then-ebola-hit-outbreak Get 20% off your first order, plus free shipping during the Memorial Day Sale at https://www.bollandbranch.com/bulwarktakes with code bulwarktakes. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@vwk3851 2026-05-21

Good time to be reminded that Ebola security was paused by Elon Musk (not even RFK).

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@ljhayes044 2026-05-21

Doctors without Borders are awesome - - thank you for what you do.

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@Biotechman10 2026-05-21

FACTS: Trump pulled the USA out of WHO. California Gov Gavin Newsom, had California join WHO, the governor also began to hire CDC and NIH staff that Musk fired. The University of California, Stanford University, Loma Linda University and the University of Southern California are all still sharing information and data with WHO.

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@girtbysea7831 2026-05-21

Thanks Bulwark. Please provide more content like this: News (not opinion), in depth, balanced, not sensational. You guys do it very well.

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@MartinaCox-p6l 2026-05-21

Thank you for everything you do, Dr. Spencer.

196 1 replies
@darbymori350 2026-05-21

Stop sugar coating it - Trump and Musk (and RFK Jr) slashed funding with no understanding of what the funds do/prevent/defend.

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@wanderingweh405 2026-05-21

Ebola, ticks and maga... just show me the exit plz. I'm exhausted.

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@theoffroadstitcher 2026-05-21

I still hold nothing but contempt for the current administration and their incompetence and stupidity.

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@actuariallurker9650 2026-05-21

Just in time for a certain person in the US government to prescribe baby bear road kill and vitamins as a cure

99 8 replies
@chrisbradley3224 2026-05-21

You have to have major balls to volunteer to travel into an Ebola outbreak in places with limited electricity and running water to care for people. All the respect in the world to these doctors.

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