Ron Klain Discusses DRC Ebola Outbreak Response, Lessons Learned From 2014 In Daily Beast Interview

Daily Beast: Obama’s ‘Ebola Czar’ Ron Klain Asks: Will Donald Trump Step Up Now?
“…[I]n light of a recent outbreak that has begun to claim lives and spread at a worrisome rate, the question remains: Did Ron Klain’s legacy as the Ebola czar work? Are all the T’s crossed and the I’s dotted? Not quite — though Klain, who currently serves as general counsel at Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, says he’s cautiously optimistic … ‘I think there’s some good news and some things we should be worried about,’ Klain said. ‘There are clearly tools available this time that weren’t available last time, which most notably includes the Merck vaccine’…” (Basu, 5/18).

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