Ebola In US: President Obama Lauds CDC Response, Urges Public To Be 'Guided By Science'

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES                 Oct. 25, 2014

By Charles Poladian

U.S. President Barack Obama again encouraged Americans to be “guided by the facts, not fear” in their assessments of Ebola virus disease as he discussed the first confirmed case in New York and the national response by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in his weekly address Saturday. Obama also mentioned the recoveries of Ashoka Mukpo and Nina Pham, who both tested negative for Ebola this week, and stressed the difficulty of contracting the virus.

 

 

U.S. President Barack Obama leans over to hug Dallas nurse Nina Pham while meeting with her in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Oct. 24, 2014. Reuters/Larry Downing

The first Ebola patient in New York, Dr. Craig Spencer, tested positive for the virus Thursday....At the federal level, CDC officials were dispatched to the hospital treating Spencer, as was the agency’s rapid-response team.

He applauded the “spirit” of New Yorkers in the wake of the news about the city’s first confirmed case of Ebola. “Yesterday, New Yorkers showed us the way. They did what they do every day: jumping on buses, riding the subway, crowding into elevators, heading into work, gathering in parks.....

Obama also covered new CDC guidelines and protocols to better prepare hospitals ahead of possible Ebola cases and the creation of a corps of medical staff under the auspices of the Pentagon.

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Text of President Obama's statement:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/25/weekly-address-focused-fight-against-ebola