Emails Show WHO Senior Staff Delayed Declaring Ebola As Global Emergency, AP Reports
Associated Press: Emails: U.N. health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency
“In a delay that some say may have cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until last summer, two months after staff raised the possibility and long after a senior manager called for a drastic change in strategy, the Associated Press has learned…” (Cheng/Satter, 3/20).
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