WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has gotten an update about the latest developments on Ebola from his health secretary and his assistant for homeland security.
The White House says Obama has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to move as quickly as possible in investigating the apparent breach of infection control procedures at the Texas hospital that had treated a Liberian man with the virus.
Obama also is having federal authorities take more steps to make sure hospitals and health care providers are ready to follow the proper procedures in dealing with an Ebola patient.
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Where’s Rick Perry on this double indictment of the Texas “health care system”? Hoping it goes away?
That poor man got terrible treatment all around – that’s what happened.
Among the powers of the President are the following:
He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses,
President Obama ought to convene them immediately and demand that they restore the funding cut from the CDC.
Well, they could start by not sending a man home who has a fever of unknown origin who has just returned from West Africa with nothing more than a few Aspirin. And they might try getting a decent patient history that includes the question, “Have you recently raveled to West Africa?”
Nurse’s notes stated he had been to Liberia. Said notes never transferred to Doctor who saw him. “Take two aspirin and call us when you have full blown communicable Ebola…”