Why Citizenship-Based Travel Bans Fail the Precautionary Principle
From HIV to COVID to Ebola: the precautionary principle has been applied more aggressively to foreigners than to citizens for decades.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
My colleagues and I published op-eds about Ebola this week. Here's where we agree.
Ebola experts published op-eds this week. Different angles, same diagnosis: the response infrastructure was dismantled before the virus arrived.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Disease, Borders, and Blame: A Seven-Century Pattern
From the Black Death to Ebola, disease control has been used to sort people by race and nationality. The pattern is centuries old, and it is happening…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
An American doctor with Ebola was evacuated to Berlin. The U.S. has biocontainment units.
What happened on Tuesday: the medevac, the 50 clinics, and what the State Department said about USAID.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
CDC Used Title 42 to Ban Travelers Over Ebola. Its Own Order Explains Why That Won’t Work.
Title 42 sat unused for decades, then became an immigration tool during COVID. Now the CDC has invoked it for Ebola, a disease the order itself says…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
The Smartphone Minerals War That Destroyed Congo's Health System — Just in Time for Ebola
Rwanda’s mineral extraction, America’s aid cuts, and the most money-driven conflict one epidemiologist has ever seen.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
The Ebola Disinformation Playbook Activated in Under 12 Hours
Within hours of the Bundibugyo PHEIC, the same conspiracy theories, supplement sales, and chain emails surfaced. Here’s the playbook and how to spot it.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
What Ebola Experts Learned the First Time—and What’s Different Now
Five friends and Ebola veterans sat down to talk about Bundibugyo. The operational details are where this gets scary.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder, Craig Spencer, and Dr. Nahid Bhadelia
The Quarantine Powers We Gutted After COVID Are the Ones Many Want Now
Hantavirus risk is genuinely low. The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC — with no vaccine, no treatment, and gutted international response capacity — is…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak Has No Vaccine, No Treatment, and Has Already Crossed a Border
Bundibugyo ebolavirus confirmed in Congo and Uganda. The world has no approved countermeasures for it.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, and Craig Spencer
A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Has People Worried About NYC Rats. They Shouldn’t Be.
The Andes virus on the MV Hondius can spread person to person. NYC’s rats carry a different hantavirus nobody tests for and a bacterial infection that’s…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
The 7th Grade Science Class That Could Have Prevented a Lot of Bad Medical Decisions
SARS-CoV-2 and Andes virus aren't even in the same realm. That matters more than most people realize.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
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