Ebola
Gates

September 10, 2014 -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its commitment of $50 million to support the emergency response to Ebola. At last, we are starting to see the resources this crisis demands.

Obama sought $88 million but yesterday House Republicans slashed Obama's requested Ebola funding by more than half.

What is needed for an appropriate response? In an article today entitled Ebola Then and Now, Drs. Breman and Johnson in the NEJM say,

...the main priorities should be adequate staff for rigorous identification, surveillance, and care of patients and primary contacts; strict isolation of patients; good clinical care; and rapid, culturally sensitive disposal of infectious cadavers... We also await key virologic, clinical, epidemiologic, and anthropologic descriptions of the epidemic.

We hope that this money from Gates and whatever slips past the Washington partisans will make these things happen.

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