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Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network
Coverage of Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network in the Nexus archive.
- These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding
The Trump administration cut funding for the NIH's CREID Network, which researches emerging infectious diseases like Ebola, citing conspiracy theories about COVID-19 origins. This decision left the network unable to assist in containing the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri Province.