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Ebola prepared these countries for coronavirus — but now even they are floundering

In Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the hard-won lessons of a deadly pandemic cannot entirely compensate for poverty and weak health systems.
  1. Amy Maxmen
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Health officials who fought Ebola during the world’s deadliest outbreak of the disease in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have resurrected the tools they used during that crisis to stave off the coronavirus. Initially this led to a swift and coordinated response, and these nations have kept the number of infections low compared to many other countries around the world. But coronavirus is presenting additional challenges, and cases are on the rise.

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Nature 583, 667-668 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02173-z

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