IT IS a safe bet that Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, won’t be relaxing much over the holidays. In January, she faces representatives of 34 governments who sit on the WHO’s executive board. And they are hopping mad about Ebola.
A clutch of reports from high-level panels have agreed that dithering by this United Nations agency in 2014 was partly what turned an outbreak in Guinea into the worst-ever epidemic of the virus. At last count, it had stricken 28,600 people, killed 11,300 and cost billions – and at one point almost became too big…
