| Source: pjmedia.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
I think it pretty obvious by now that everyone in the executive branch who is going to go before the media and talk about Ebola has been instructed to deliver nothing but happy talk pronouncements and soothing bromides about how the government has everything under control. The confidence may or may not be justified. But the infection of a second American in Texas wasn't supposed to happen. The unidentified health care worker who was infected with the Ebola virus took every precaution a modern, 21st century health care system could take. And yet the virus found a way. So it is faintly ridiculous for a representative of the National Institutes of Health to go on camera and say something silly like this: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in the United States was working. "The system worked," Fauci said on ABC's "This Week." On Sunday, officials in Texas announced that a second person in Dallas had tested positive for the deadly virus — a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week. "She was on voluntary self-monitoring," he said about the latest victim. "She found she got infected, and she immediately did what she was supposed to have done." "So even in this troublesome situation, t ... |
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