My Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal on the continuing #Ebola crisis in West Africa: If Ebola does decisively break out of West Africa, we may be unable to control the spread of the disease solely by conventional public-health tools of infection controls, tracking and tracing sick contacts, and isolating the ill. If this happens, we may face a global pandemic early next year. We might have to pin our hopes on a drug or vaccine to reverse the tide. Yet too many public-health officials still believe that they can solve the crisis with tried-and-true methods to contain an outbreak that prioritize manpower over technology. Groups like the World Health Organization have been wrong at every turn in responding to the Ebola outbreak earlier this year. We can’t take the chance that they may again be miscalculating. online.wsj/articles/scott-gottlieb-and-tevi-troy-stopping-ebola-before-it-turns-into-a-pandemic-1412376544
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:22:46 +0000