Peter Piot: the veteran scientist who helped to raise the alarm over Ebola | The Guardian
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cting as much on gut instinct as evidence, said Piot, he gave an interview to CNN on 2 July. “I said this is out of control and then I surprised myself and said we need a quasi-military operation,” he said. “Afterwards I thought, oh my God, what did I say? I’m Flemish by culture. We don’t exaggerate. We use understatement if anything. But unfortunately I was right.”
After that he got very frustrated, he said, asking why the WHO and the US were not doing more. “#MSF can’t carry the weight of a nationwide response in three countries,” he said. “It may also be because of my Aids background. I always felt if we had acted much earlier and had the resources we have now for HIV, it wouldn’t have got out of hand.”
