Lessons in vaccine distribution from The Democratic Republic of Congo 

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An outbreak of Ebola in The Democratic Republic of Congo that started in 2018 was stopped in its tracks by a vaccine program that worked. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Alhassane Toure, who led WHO’s vaccine program in DR Congo during the latest Ebola outbreak. Then we turn to Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is studying vaccine rollout in both the United States and DRC.

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