Having earlier warned that the Ebola epidemic could kill “hundreds of thousands” and is a “priority for US,” President Obama’s concerns about “slowing economic growth in Africa,” are perhaps the most telling statement of the Nobel Peace Prize winners comments this morning. However, as Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brendan Greeley explains in this brief clip, US government bureaucracy stymied efforts to develop and test ZMapp – the potential Ebola treatment.
Speaking at the Global Health Security Summit, President Obama stated: