Access to Medicine, Ebola Neglect, and Care Commons
June 5, 2026
State withdrawal from health and welfare infrastructure is accelerating across North America and the UK, evidenced by SSA workforce slashing, BC primary care collapse, and UK disability policy failures, while geopolitical actors weaponize neglect to obscure responsibility for unfolding crises like the DRC Ebola outbreak. This structural dismantling of the care commons coincides with grassroots pushback and scientific mobilization, as MAHA activists contest glyphosate monopolies and researchers race to develop vaccines, revealing a systemic shift where algorithmic curation displaces institutional expertise while material care deficits expose the limits of digital substitution.
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Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response
After cutting its support for frontline healthcare workers in Central Africa, the Trump administration is pointing fingers. The post Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response appeared first on The Intercept.
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MAHA moms test their influence in US glyphosate fight
'Make America Healthy Again' activists see legislative wins, White House disappointments and questions for the midterms.
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BC’s Family Doctor Crisis Gets Even Worse
Despite measures, almost one in four people lack access to primary care.
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Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump
The agency has cut more than 13% of its workforce. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump administration are making it much harder to get disability benefits that millions of American…
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One in four of us is Disabled. It’s time the UK government heard us
Labour needs a new direction. Its first step must be to stop treating Disabled people as a problem to be managed
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The Ebola outbreak the world isn’t paying attention to
A deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC is spreading across borders, with no approved vaccine or treatment for this strain.
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Dr. ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems - but actual doctors are still better at weighing treatment options
The mental shortcuts doctors use in diagnosis aren't that different from how chatbots come up with answers to your health questions. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old…
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Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine
As health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to battle an ongoing Ebola outbreak, scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine against the strain of the virus that’s causing it. Two approved vaccines exist for Ebola, but they target the Zaire strain of the viru…
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Three new Ebola vaccines are being developed. An infectious disease expert explains
When it comes to Ebola outbreaks, it’s not often we have two pieces of good news in one week. First, we heard there’s new funding of up to US$62 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the type of virus circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbo…
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