How Global Health Failed as the Ebola Outbreak Took Hold

Liberians have been sounding the alarm for weeks. Why has real action on Ebola been so slow?
MONROVIA, Liberia — Every day, 25 volunteers sit next to landline phones at two long tables in a room in Liberia’s capital. It feels like any ordinary co-working space, but this is the closest thing Ebola-stricken Liberia has to 911: The callers are reporting sick or dead family members or neighbors, and the phones are ringing off the hook.