The Ebola Crisis: A Case for Our Shortsightedness
by SavvyRoo on Oct 27, 2014 | Views: 119 | Score: 1
Don't Know / NA | Decrease | Stay the same | Increase | |
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Government spending on Ebola research should ... | 19 | 5 | 33 | 43 |
Government efforts to stop Ebola should ... | 17 | 3 | 26 | 54 |
According to Americans
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Sources:
today.yougov.com
In this side by side comparison, we see the difference between people's willingness to invest in prevention in the short term, and the feverish response to crisis when it actually happens. A majority of Americans support an increased effort to stop Ebola now, though this number dwindles when it comes to committing resources to study the illness and to plan more comprehensive responses to outbreaks of deadly disease in the future.