Basing their choice on "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year", the editors of Time magazine in December 2014 named the Ebola health workers as Person of the Year.
基于“个人或对新闻影响最大、我们的生活、不管好坏、体现出今年重要事件的个人”选择标准，2014年12月《时代杂志》将埃博拉抗击者选为年度人物。