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When @ossjohnson & I wrote #GettingtoZeroBook on our work on the #Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, little did we know that we would soon be battling another infectious disease #COVID19, me in #SouthSudan and Oliver in South Africa. Here are some of the lessons we are trying to apply 
1. We need to monitor and mitigate the negative side-effects of preventative measures.
Measures aiming to prevent #COVID19 like lockdowns, banning public transport & closing shops, can create unemployment, raise food prices and threaten livelihoods of already vulnerable people.
Measures aiming to prevent #COVID19 like lockdowns, banning public transport & closing shops, can create unemployment, raise food prices and threaten livelihoods of already vulnerable people.
So each preventative measure must be analysed in terms of its prevention benefit vs. its cost for the population to try to find the best balance. And then we need to try to mitigate the impact on the newly vulnerable people as much as we can.
