Ebola lessons
Did prior epidemic experience protect against the spread of Covid-19 in Sierra Leone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2289241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristen E Mclean (0000-0002-3733-6953, International Studies Program College of Charleston Charleston South Carolina USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-178 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/maq.12850 |
| PMID | 38386863 |
| OpenAlex | W4392084906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 60 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a re-examination of public health preparedness with an emphasis on lessons learned following the West African Ebola epidemic. However, much of this work focuses on technological solutions rather than social learning. Drawing upon anthropological work, this paper examines how Sierra Leoneans prepared for COVID-19 through a lens of "embodied epidemic memory." Findings reveal that while people felt more empowered to respond to COVID-19 due to their past experiences, traumatic memories from the Ebola outbreak also sparked logics of fear and avoidance, driven by mistrust toward the state and its healthcare system. As a result, people avoided healthcare facilities, and rumors concerning government corruption threatened mitigation efforts. While local populations should be better leveraged for their existing epidemic expertise, greater attention is needed to the "higher hanging fruit" of preparedness: restoring trust in the government's ability to respond to epidemics
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Ebola virus · Economic growth · Government (linguistics · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Preparedness · Public health · Public relations · Sierra leone · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Threatened species · Work (physics · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology
When Bodies RememberExperiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa
Ebola
Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against importations of Covid-19
Community engagement for successful Covid-19 pandemic response
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone
Sars-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021
Covid-19 in Ebola’s Wake
The embodied past. From paranoid style to politics of memory in South Africa
Preparedness for the next epidemic
Rethinking disease preparedness
Ebola is a business’
Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea
Afterword
Between remembrance and knowledge
Ebola and Covid-19 in Sierra Leone
The Covid-19 crisis chronotope
We Know Who is Eating the Ebola Money
More than Disease
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics
(Re)arranging “systems of care” in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone
Reconceptualizing successful pandemic preparedness and response
Thanks to Corona virus
The largest ever epidemic of Ebola
Limited good and limited vision
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness
Public trust, policing, and the Covid-19 pandemic
On the coloniality of global public health
Preparing for the Next Emergency
Epidemics (Especially Ebola)
What Went Wrong
Conjuring Biosecurity in the Post-Ebola Kissi Triangle
Memory, Forgetting, and Economic Crisis
The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared
International Political Economy and the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |