Dr Oliver Johnson says the current Ebola outbreak is escalating faster than the devastating West Africa crisis in 2014 - but warns the human reality behind outbreaks is often misunderstood. Dr Johnson says people can’t simply isolate at home when they rely on daily work to survive, and in moments of fear, uncertainty and misinformation, empathy matters just as much as medicine. From The Fourcast podcast on the growing Ebola emergency.

Dr Oliver Johnson says the current Ebola outbreak is escalating faster than the devastating West Africa crisis in 2014 - but warns the human reality behind outbreaks is often misunderstood. Dr Johnson says people can’t simply isolate at home when they rely on daily work to survive, and in moments of fear, uncertainty and misinformation, empathy matters just as much as medicine. From The Fourcast podcast on the growing Ebola emergency. ♬ original sound - Channel 4 News

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