Blog Post Discusses Differences Between CDC, MSF Approaches To Ebola
Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog”: CDC vs Médecins Sans Frontières on Ebola: Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?
Mead Over, senior fellow at CGD, discusses a recent “disagreement between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Ebola experts and the Médecins Sans Frontieres Ebola doctors regarding the value of community Ebola treatment centers staffed with community volunteers for Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. … These individuals and their organizations are hugely competent and are working from the same facts about Ebola. How could they disagree on such a major question of strategy?…” (9/25).
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