What Ebola Can Teach Us About Covid-19
An interview with medical anthropologist Paul Farmer on his new book
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10 min readNov 18, 2020
In 2014, an Ebola virus began to spread throughout Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The pandemic took the lives of tens of thousands of people and offered acute lessons in infectious disease response and human nature — lessons that we would do well to remember today.
