Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Ebola Panic
Today, the director of the Centers for Disease Control compared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to HIV/AIDS. What are the similarities and differences between the viruses? Also, despite the scary comparison, health officials still consider an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. extremely unlikely. How overblown is our panic?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readToday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control compared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to HIV/AIDS. What are the similarities and differences between the viruses? Also, despite the scary comparison, health officials still consider an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. extremely unlikely. How overblown is our panic?
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The full episode
2 of 5LAUSD’s Student Records Problem and the History of the Jheri Curl- 0:00LAUSD’s Student Records Problems
- 9:39Ebola PanicYou’re reading this
- 16:29L.A.’s New Director of Cultural Affairs
- 26:07Dear White People
- 42:02A History of the Jheri Curl