Have Our Top Hospitals and Universities Learned Their Lesson?

Academic medical centers in the U.S. didn’t do enough to combat Ebola in West Africa — that cost us when Covid hit.

Craig Spencer MD MPH
GEN
6 min readJun 24, 2021

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Photo by Andrey Metelev on Unsplash

I only vaguely remember the frenzied activity as they rushed me from the ambulance to the isolation ward. But I vividly recall the nurse trying to start an intravenous…

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Craig Spencer MD MPH
GEN
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ER doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health Professor at Brown University | A Few Other Things