Obama Says Hes Open to Ebola Czar to Coordinate Response
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President Barack Obama said hes open to naming a czar to coordinate the U.S. domestic response to Ebola as concern over health workers possibly carrying the deadly virus spread from planes to schools and cruise ships.
It may make sense for us to have one person, in part just so that after this initial surge of activity we can have a more regular process, Obama told reporters yesterday at the White House. Just to make sure that were crossing all the ts and dotting all the is going forward.
After the administration acknowledged lapses in handling the first U.S. cases, Obama said hes mobilizing the federal government to contain any spread of the virus within the countrys borders. The key to stemming the outbreak is battling it in West Africa, he said. More than 4,400 people have died from Ebola this year, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The Ebola Scourge
Republican lawmakers are criticizing the response by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a Liberian man visiting Dallas died of Ebola last week and two nurses who treated him became the first people infected in the U.S. Some lawmakers have called on Obama to appoint a czar.
Three schools in Belton, Texas, were closed yesterday and will remain closed today after Superintendent Susan Kincannon learned that two students, who attend North Belton Middle School and Sparta Elementary, were on a Frontier Airlines flight that carried Amber Vinson, one of the nurses.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the fight against the Ebola virus during a meeting with his Ebola Response Team in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Oct. 16, 2014. Close
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Obama Says Hes Open to Ebola Czar to Coordinate Response