Time To "Rethink" Tom Frieden As CDC Head

Investors.com ^ | October 14, 2014 | IBD Editorial

[jazusamo]

Public Health: The man whose one job is to safeguard America's health has failed, saying that we must change our responses to Ebola after a Dallas health care worker becomes infected despite the rules he championed.

After 26-year-old Dallas health care worker Nina Pham became the first person to contract Ebola on U.S. soil, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said during a press conference that (we) "have to rethink the way we address Ebola control."

Yes, we do. Pham's infection, just as Thomas E. Duncan's death in Dallas after a multistop trip from Liberia, wasn't supposed to happen with CDC's protocols. Frieden's repeated assurances that everything possible was being done have been demonstrably false.

Blaming Pham, who contracted the disease while caring for Duncan despite taking recommended protections and wearing the proper gear, Frieden said that "at some point there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection."

He later walked back his remarks. But if the protocols were adequate, why do we need to rethink them?

Pham isn't alone. Maria Teresa Romero Ramos, a Spanish nurse's aide, contracted the disease while caring for an Ebola patient in a Madrid hospital.

She got infected when her gloved hand inadvertently touched her face while removing her protective gear.

[DoodleDawg]

Having said that, IF A POTENTIAL PANDEMIC ISN’T A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE - what would be in your mind?

Hyperbole aside, what would you have the CDC and the Public Health Service be doing?

[C. Edmund Wright]

You still have no idea the point I’m making. You are trying to overthink this. I was pointing out the irony of duplicate governmental bureaucracies - that’s all - your question is absurd in light of the point I was making - but because you don’t understand the point, not even yet - you continue to ask.

[Kenny500c]

Then the proper term would be infectious, not highly contagious like a common cold is.

[KSCITYBOY]

Guy is a f***ing moron. Liberalism first logic last.

[Tugo]

Everyone should immediately be working to isolate north African region and work in conjunction with other nations to maintain the quarantine. Then work like hell to further combat, isolate and exterminate the spreading virus.