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Liberia’s Hindered Response
The good news from Liberia: New cases have dropped from 100 per day to 20.
The bad news: Response efforts are hindered by “poor coordination and serious disagreements between Liberian officials and the donors and health agencies fighting the epidemic,” reports Donald G. McNeil Jr. in The New York Times, drawing on minutes from top-level meetings and interviews with experts.
Problems he uncovered include: a persistent lack of good reporting on confirmed cases, hospitals being built in areas where they are not needed, health workers who don’t even have thermometers, etc.
One of the major challenges is coordinating more than 100 agencies, NGOs, donors and other organizations responding.
** The New York Times (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Ebola’s Economic Cost Re-Examined – ** The New York Times (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: WHO Pushes for Rapid, Safe Ebola Diagnostic Tests – ** Voice of America (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Wanted: Ebola test with perfect negative predictive value at time zero – ** Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: WHO reports intense Ebola activity in large part of Sierra Leone – ** CIDRAP (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: CDC Chief Drops Worst-Case Ebola Estimate – ** ABC News (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: I’m Back from Liberia and Under a (Self-Imposed) Quarantine in Brooklyn – ** Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
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