The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has downplayed the threat of the Ebola virus outbreak as one infected person has entered the United States via a commerical flight. The editors at the New York Sun suggest that the head of the CDC ought to be the next Obama administration official to resign his post:
It’s an ironical situation. We have never been a fan of the Centers for Disease Control. It is a fiercely left-wing institution that is trying to infect the entire nation with nanny-statism. It sticks its nose into everything. Why are centers for “disease control” pontificating on motor vehicle safety? Are cars some sort of infection? What’s its mandate in “adult seat-belt use”? Or “child injuries” or “teen pregnancy” to name but a few of the issues that that it pontificates on but that aren’t diseases. Yet just when we need CDC to jump in and take the lead, it offers bland assurances that we will stop this disease in its tracks.
Maybe, but no sooner did Dr. Frieden issue that bromide, than the Drudge Report lit up like a rescue ship. As we write, its leading story is illustrated with a splotch of blood where the siren often goes and its headline links to a dispatch in the Wall Street Journal on how the first ebola victim here was turned away by a hospital in Texas before eventually being taken in. At the moment, there are at least eight other ebola stories on Drudge, among them a dispatch on the mishandling of ebola the patient prompting CDE alert to hospitals and another about a doctor, a microbiologist from Missouri, who fetched up at the Atlanta airport wearing a anti-infection suit to protest that the CDC was “sugar coating” the risk of the virus spreading in America.
Maybe, but no sooner did Dr. Frieden issue that bromide, than the Drudge Report lit up like a rescue ship. As we write, its leading story is illustrated with a splotch of blood where the siren often goes and its headline links to a dispatch in the Wall Street Journal on how the first ebola victim here was turned away by a hospital in Texas before eventually being taken in. At the moment, there are at least eight other ebola stories on Drudge, among them a dispatch on the mishandling of ebola the patient prompting CDE alert to hospitals and another about a doctor, a microbiologist from Missouri, who fetched up at the Atlanta airport wearing a anti-infection suit to protest that the CDC was “sugar coating” the risk of the virus spreading in America.
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