“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Oh, good! They're going to "act now!"....finally :-/
You misunderstand. By "act now" they mean that they want the MONEY FIRST, then they will do something.
This same subject was brought up in a similar thread yesterday and they said, "But we need the money first".
"Act" = think up some strategy in the next few months.