Framing Analysis
Senator Marco Rubio stated that the WHO was a little late to identify the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded the following day. As of the Wednesday WHO briefing, 51 cases were confirmed, nearly 600 suspected, and 139 deaths reported in the DRC, with Tedros noting the true scale was likely larger.