ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown School of Public Health | Member Council on Foreign Relations | Emmy Award Winner 🏆
Craig Spencer MD MPH
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Three weeks into the growing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo and Uganda, I take stock of what’s working well, and what still worries me.
All that and more, and all for free, on my Substack 👇
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Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social has witnessed Ebola as a physician and a patient.
He talks about what scares him about the current outbreak, what it’s like to treat the disease on the ground, and what lessons he fears we still haven’t learned.
🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/what-we-must...
I joined @pbsnews.org tonight to talk about the U.S. response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
I worry we have our priorities inverted. The primary focus on keeping Ebola out at all costs will ultimately make it harder to end this outbreak.
Watch the interview for more:
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We continue to think that if we protect ourselves here, that's sufficient, but the only thing that's going to lower risk for Americans is making sure there is no #Ebola. — @craigspencer.bsky.social
Protests continue in Kenya as quarantine facility being built by the US for American citizens.
Until I got back on the line with @craigspencer.bsky.social I'd forgotten that Trump railed against Craig returning to the US after he'd treated patients with ebola. This was in 2014!! Before DJT was president, before COVID. This convo is worth your ears: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Please consider signing onto this letter in support of the highest level of care for Americans re Ebola- proud to stand with @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social and Anne Schuchat www.idsociety.org/globalassets... @altcdc.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
"People on the street in Kenya are angry because for many of them, this looks like colonial decision making all over again," Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social says. "That we can come into a country... do whatever the hell we want has led to an incredible amount of anti-American backlash."
🚨@drdebhoury.bsky.social, @craigspencer.bsky.social, Anne Schuchat & I drafted an open letter to Congress expressing concerns about the proposed use of third-country facilities for Americans potentially exposed to or infected with Ebola.
Colleagues, please consider signing: tinyurl.com/Ebola-Letter
Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social compares the current Ebola outbreak, which is nearing 1,000 confirmed cases, to the 2024 Rwanda Marburg outbreak, in which the US joined partners to rapidly deploy vaccines and treatments, successfully containing the outbreak. ⤵️
Center Affiliate @craigspencer.bsky.social joined @nbcnews.com's Meet The Press yesterday and shared his expertise on the #ebola outbreak crisis in the DRC.
"I expect the 1000 or so cases we are reporting now is probably just a fraction of the actual true cases on the ground."
Opinions are divided about the new facility in Kenya. The U.S. defends it. Kenyans are protesting it. Doctors who were on the ground in the 2014 Ebola outbreak voice criticism as well.
Opinions are divided about the new facility in Kenya. The U.S. defends it. Kenyans are protesting it. Doctors who were on the ground in the 2014 Ebola outbreak voice criticism as well.
The deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Public health researcher and Ebola survivor Dr. Craig Spencer joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the need for u...
