Time Magazine's Person of the Year Is...

Ferguson protesters were in the second spot on the list

By Lily Harrison Dec 10, 2014 5:16 PMTags
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Time magazine has announced their Person of the Year and it's not exactly a household name.

The annual issue features five covers honoring Ebola fights who have worked on the ground in West Africa to put an end to the outbreak.

Dr. Jerry Brown, a Liberian surgeon who turned his hospital's chapel into one of the country's very first Ebola treatment centers is honored on one cover.

Salame Karwah, an Ebola survivor who lost both of her parents to the disease, was also given a cover in honor of her brave battle and work with patients in Liberia.

Foday Gallah, an ambulance supervisor and Ebola survivor in Monrovia, was also awarded the prestigious title.

Two Americans were also named as the Person of the Year, Dr. Kent Brantly and Ella Watson-Stryker.

Watson-Stryker is an American health educator who has been helping fight the treacherous epidemic over the last year in West Africa.

Brantly became the first American to be infected with the disease and transported to a Stateside hospital.

He opened up to the magazine about he was unaware at how highly publicized his diagnosis and subsequent treatment was.

"Shortly after I arrived at Emory, [my wife] Amber called from a phone outside my room. I don't remember that conversation, I was so delirious, but she said to me, 'We watched you walk off that ambulance.' I said, 'You were watching me?' And she said, 'Oh, Kent. The whole world was watching you.'"

Time editor Nancy Gibbs explained the magazine's decision by saying, "The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight."