Bono, Affleck stay silent in PSA on Ebola response

November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 News Room

Morgan Freeman and Taj arrive at the premiere of "Island of Lemurs: Madagascar" on Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Los Angeles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP — Morgan Freeman and Taj arrive at the premiere of “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” on Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Los Angeles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

LOS ANGELES _ Bono, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman and “The Walking Dead” actress Danai Gurira are among celebrities playing the waiting game in a new online campaign calling for a unified response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.In a video posted Wednesday, stars such as Will Ferrell, Thandie Newton and Connie Britton stare silently into a camera to illustrate that they’re still waiting for world leaders to fight Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people in the west African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia

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