Fortunately for Africa, and for the rest of the world, the Chinese Communist Party was not in control in the African countries where Ebola outbreaks occurred.
There was no hiding or lying about the outbreaks. They were reported immediately, and the history of the disease was long enough by 2014, when Obama had to deal with it, to know how it spread and what precautions needed to be taken. He didn't have to deal with a situation, such as with our present coronavirus, in which the world is still grappling with how to fight it, and in which millions of people world wide had already unknowingly been infected and was secretly already spreading throughout the globe, and when realized, initially and falsely, operating under the notion that it was not easily spread human to human.
Also, the transmission of Ebola is more difficult than COVID-19 because it is not an airborne type, but done by actual contact with bodily fluids, which makes it far easier to contain.
The various cases in Africa were identified quickly and steps were taken there to keep if from becoming a pandemic, but maintaining it basically as various epidemics in regions of Africa. The work of identifying and controlling the epidemics was accomplished by various epidemiologists and medical experts from around the world including WHO. There was no CCP type of blocking foreign expert help.
All of that is the reason why Ebola was not a serious pandemic that affected the U.S. and the rest of the world. Ebola deaths outside of Africa are very rare.
If the CCP had immediately given an honest report of what it knew about the Wuhan virus and accepted experts from the U.S. and other countries to assist in identifying and controlling it, as had been done (and is being done) in Africa with Ebola, the virus probably would have been contained as localized Chinese epidemics, and the rest of the world would have been prepared, if necessary, in how to deal with travel restrictions, quarantines, preparations, and protocols from day one instead of having to deal with an already infected population by the time we became aware of its presence.
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