{"id":46429,"date":"2014-10-18T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/how_the_worlds_top_health_body_allowed_ebola_to_spiral_out_of_control\/"},"modified":"2014-10-18T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T18:30:20","slug":"how_the_worlds_top_health_body_allowed_ebola_to_spiral_out_of_control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46429","title":{"rendered":"How the World&#39;s Top Health Body Allowed Ebola to Spiral Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor communication, a lack of leadership and underfunding plagued the World Health Organization\u2019s initial response to the Ebola outbreak, allowing the disease to spiral out of control.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, medics weren\u2019t deployed because they weren\u2019t issued visas. In another, bureaucratic hurdles delayed the spending of $500,000 intended to support the disease response. Meanwhile, fresh information on the outbreak from experts in the field was slow to reach headquarters, while contact-tracers refused to work on concern they wouldn\u2019t get paid.<\/p>\n<p>The account of the WHO\u2019s missteps, based on interviews with five people familiar with the agency who asked not to be identified, lifts the veil on the workings of an agency designed as the world\u2019s health warden yet burdened by politics and bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-16\/who-response-to-ebola-outbreak-foundered-on-bureaucracy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor communication, a lack of leadership and underfunding plagued the World Health Organization\u2019s initial response to the Ebola outbreak, allowing the disease to spiral out of control. In one instance, medics weren\u2019t deployed because they weren\u2019t issued visas. In another,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46429\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,175,168,119,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}