Ebola was rooted in a crisis that was much larger than the medical challenges that arose: a problem of governance; perverse incentives; misdirected resources; failure of disease surveillance and response; a decision-making process that was warped first by inertia and then by the emotional intensity of the moment; a lack of ownership and agency from the most grassroots levels to the sterile halls of multinational organizations. The people with the resources that could have helped didn’t notice until Ebola threatened their own.
