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Gyude Moore has more experience with social distancing and disease response than many in his current hometown of Washington, D.C. During the Ebola response, he served as a senior adviser to then-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and stopped interacting with people far earlier than most.
“What has been frustrating for me about the U.S. response is that, during the West Africa outbreak, people came from the U.S. to help us respond and people here know what needs to be done, but what’s been missing is central guidance. It doesn’t make any sense,” he told Devex.
Moore said he has seen parallels with the Ebola crisis, which had political leadership hoping that numbers wouldn’t go up. The first case in Liberia was a woman who had gone to Guinea for a funeral. Though a “frantic search for her” took place and there were efforts to trace all of her contacts, there was then a roughly monthlong hiatus in which people continued going about their normal lives — until there was an “explosion in cases.”
