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Global Journalist: From Ebola to COVID-19

Workers in hazmat gear work at a gravesite
Jerome Delay
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AP

Two journalists who covered Ebola when victims of an outbreak in Africa came to the United States for treatment six years ago discuss how that experience compares to today's COVID-19 pandemic.

Ebola, which continues to flare in Africa, causes fever and internal bleeding and kills half the people who contract it, according to the World Health Organization.

Host: Regan Mertz

Guests: 

  • Don Champion
  • Jonathan Serrie

Producers: Katharine Finnerty, Brendan Hall, Hannah France

KATHY KIELY is a veteran reporter and editor with a multimedia portfolio and a passion for transparency, free speech and teaching. After a long career covering politics in Washington, Kiely moved into the classroom full-time because, she says, universities are the laboratories that will discover the formula for making fact-based journalism viable again.
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