Forum: Ebola Lessons for COVID-19

What are the key takeaways from the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa? How can we apply these lessons to the current COVID-19 pandemic?

Learn first-hand from a doctor, a diplomat and a physicist that worked in the Ebola outbreak. In this talk they share their thoughts on how we can get to zero in this pandemic too.

Panelists:
Sinead Walsh – Deputy Director General, Irish Aid
Oliver Johnson – PhD Student, King’s College London

[moniful]

That's such a good one. I listened to it when it was live on Facebook. I wish everyone would listen to it. I find the most important lecture is in the end of this video when it comes to terms with coping socially with the virus. How can we organize society and involve everyone to beat this pandemic? This is the most important thing to do. Involve everyone. And give them the hope that it can be beaten within a certain amount of time. Within 6 or 8 weeks for example. If there is no aim like that people will not cope! That's what the leaders of Germany and Europe have to understand.

[jimweights]

Just to say thank you for what you have done on covid - you saved so many people. I didn’t know you had helped on Ebola also!

[moniful]

we are still in the pandemic and our leaders did not consider ZeroCovid elimination strateey as an option or decide for it. We can not take part in normal life since the pandemic began and never will, before we don`t go to Zero. This video is always on my mind because it gave me lots of key moments to understand how important community engagement is and howimprortnat to work together and get everyone on board. People need to transform their view on being part of society. They have to open up and work together with people they didn`t know before. This is networking. The point is not who knows better or best but that everyone supports others in their efforts to fight the pandemic. Because we have the common goal not to get sick or die from this virus. This goal should unify us.