Vox Sentences: Ebola's recent decline

1. Ending Ebola

• Ebola diagnoses are "halving every 10 days in Guinea, every 14 days in Liberia, and every 19 days in Sierra Leone."

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

• Sierra Leone is easing travel restrictions within the country as the situation improves.

  [AFP]

• The first ever clinical trial of potential Ebola vaccines is expected to begin in Liberia in about two weeks.

  [NYT / Andrew Pollack]

• All that said, "there are still pockets of intense transmission and hard-to-reach rural areas that aren't being tended to," and it's still too early to declare the epidemic over.

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

2. Misc.

• The late Saudi King Abdullah is being celebrated in the Western press as a "reformer." Bullshit.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• The "Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang" theory of monetary policy.

  [NY Mag / Annie Lowrey]

• Just over 50 percent of Americans — and almost 80 percent of Democrats — want single-payer health insurance.

  [The Hill / Sarah Ferris]

• Meet Kate McKean, the literary agent who makes meme creators into published, income-earning authors.

  [Daily Dot via Washington Post / Miles Klee]

• There's an Iraqi insurgent equivalent to American Sniper's Chris Kyle: the (possibly apocryphal) Juba.

  [Washington Post / Adam Taylor]

3. Verbatim

• "She says their prenup obligated her to reach a certain level in Scientology."

  [Business Insider / Aaron Gell]

• "After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned — the hard way — that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they — men — had the ideas."

  [Björk to Pitchfork / Jessica Hopper]

• "This is a Navy SEAL who we trained to be a killer of bad terrorists. He’s not going to walk around using the Queen’s English!"

  [Megyn Kelly to NYT / Jim Rutenberg]

• "In 2010, only about 15 percent of new marriages were interracial … Based on random matching alone, the expected proportion of interracial relationships in the United States should be as high as 44 percent."

  [The Kernel / Aaron Sankin]

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