As the session went on, there was no sweeter sound than to hear a colleague say, “I am pleased to announce today . . .” China, which was increasingly looking for ways to show off its superpower status, declared fighting Ebola “a common responsibility of all countries in the world” and pledged to send more money, supplies, biosecurity labs, and public health professionals. The UK promised an additional five hundred treatment beds in Sierra Leone (a contribution that might seem small, but that would prove important). Japan sent some 20,000 infection prevention suits for health care workers. The
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