Posted on 10/06/2014 9:17:31 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Obama is expected to meet with top health and security officials on Monday to consider whether to launch additional screening at U.S. airports for some travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken African nations.
Two top U.S. health officials confirmed to Fox News on Monday that they were looking at those options as they try to contain the Ebola virus.
"What will be discussed at the White House is the issue of entry screening," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.
He explained that the first line of defense right now is for travelers to be screened when they attempt to leave the affected African nations. Officials have said dozens of travelers have been stopped from boarding this way after they exhibited symptoms at these departure points.
Fauci said the president and his team are now looking at imposing an extra layer of screening -- by instituting new measures at U.S. airports.
"That's certainly open for discussion," he said.
Dr. Tom Frieden, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also confirmed that officials are "looking at those possibilities and others as well."
He confirmed the extra screening might include asking travelers who they had contact with and checking to see if they have a fever.
Obama is scheduled to get the update on the Ebola outbreak Monday afternoon from his national security team and other senior officials.
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You were hired to protect us Texans.
"Expected" meaning he won't.
It just takes one getting past the "crack" African screeners, not to mention those that pick it up in the airport.
How about deploying JBAIDS detectors and testing the saliva of any debarking passenger who was any where near West Africa?
I realize that would cost money, more than “asking people of they were in contact with...”, but it would detect virus carriers.
Asking them if they had any contact and checking them for a fever after they’ve taken a few ibuprofen....yeah, that’ll work.
Kinda late............
The horses of the Apocalypse are not over the horizon, why discuss locking the doors so soon?
That already happen. Duncan in Dallas from last week.
Obama has to actually think about it...? of course! Is it polically correct?
Even then only delectable after they show symptoms.
delectable... sigh...
detectable
I think in the long run, Obama will say this is what Obamacare is all about....everyone having healthcare available. The problem is us working folks are paying for a bunch of lazy slobs.
“Even then only delectable after they show symptoms.”
I’m not convinced that CDC and WHO have all the facts straight yet.
Oh, he’ll meet with them. He just won’t heed their advice. Goes against the “Kumbaya we are the world all other concerns be damned” agenda he’s got going on there. And probably some of the advisers will be white too, yet another reason for him to ignore what they have to say.
An immensely better idea than pussy-footing around with this third-world curse is to simply ban all flights coming from those countries. But then again, that tramples all over the agenda I mentioned above. So no go. Despite how reasonable it would be; reason has no place in politics don’tcha know.
So the s.o.b. is thinking about making a decision.
He has no trouble deciding to keep airports open. No trouble deciding to send a thank you message to a mosque. No trouble deciding to send troops to ebola land and not send troops to protect an ambassador.
The clown has the primary responsibility to protect our borders and our citizens. He is doing the opposite of that.
Why are the other branches of government going along with it?? Why are they letting him usurp all that power?
It does not take a genius to determine the most effective way to control potential pandemic is to halt the uncontrolled flow of people in and out of the diseased global hotspots.
What? No more “We are the world . . . ?”
PING!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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