Experts Grade Ebola Response a C+ After 11,000-Death Outbreak, as Funding Gaps Persist
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 6
Experts Grade Ebola Response a C+ After 11,000-Death Outbreak, as Funding Gaps Persist
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 6
Summary
Public health experts say the East Africa Ebola response shows the world has improved since past crises, even after Bundibugyo virus spread undetected for months in Congo and Uganda.
A C+ is how one leading reviewer now rates the global response, up from an F during West Africa's two-year Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people.
Governments and scientists are coordinating faster, and money has already been raised to study Bundibugyo vaccines and treatments — a step experts say was far less feasible in 2014.
Treatment centers still lack basic medical supplies, and experts say sustained funding for research and guarantees of access to therapies remain major weaknesses.