VIDEO — Weekly Examiner: Obama appoints Ebola czar

Published October 17, 2014 8:07pm ET



President Obama on Friday appointed Ron Klain as Ebola czar after days of speculation on whether or not Obama would appoint someone to the job.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief along with other health officials were grilled on Capitol Hill Thursday at a hearing to examine Ebola in the United States. One of the more shocking moments from the nearly three-hour hearing was when Dr. Daniel Varga, Chief Clinical Officer of Texas Health Resources, admitted there was no actual training for the staff at the Texas hospital before Thomas Duncan was admitted.

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