The White House has watered down its pandemic preparedness plan. Then came Ebola.

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WASHINGTON — In January 2025, with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic still top of mind, the Biden administration left behind a sweeping plan for how the federal bureaucracy should function to thwart future disease outbreaks.

The plan spanned hundreds of pages and addressed dozens of specific issues, including the government’s response to diseases like Ebola and how to bring Americans back from endemic areas to the United States for care.

But weeks later, the Trump administration swept through Washington and began ignoring the plan, according to two former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials who worked in the Trump administration and four people familiar with the Biden-era plan.

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