In mid-January 2018, officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) informed staff that the global health initiative would be "downsized." The initiative was established in 2014 to assist foreign governments in responding to infectious disease outbreaks and other public health threats. It was funded through a one-off, five-year emergency package approved by Congress following the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. That funding is expected to run out in September 2018 and CDC officials anticipate that "no new resources" will be requested by the Trump administration. As a result, the initiative will have to be scaled back. Whereas it previously covered 49 countries, going forward, it will focus on 10 priority areas. According to media reports, the "countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo."
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In early 2020, public health experts criticized the decision to scale-back work in China, claiming that it may have hampered the Trump administration's ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.