Covid-19 Advice From America’s Ebola Doctor

Dr. Bruce Ribner is always prepared

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readMar 27, 2020

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America’s Ebola Doctor Offers Advice for Covid-19. The U.S. leadership wasn’t prepared for Covid-19. But there are plenty of doctors and scientists always thinking about pandemics. We spoke to Dr. Bruce Ribner, who you may remember as the doctor who treated Americans with Ebola.

“It is certainly possible to overreact to a potential epidemic, but we seem to be a long way from overreacting to the current epidemic,” he says.

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that