Posted on 10/16/2014 11:12:29 PM PDT by dennisw
The CDC chief eventually admitted that they’ve spoken about the issue, but refused to confirm whether the White House checked with the disease control agency’s experts about halting flights.
“We’ve had discussions about the issue of travel to and from West Africa,” Frieden finally replied.
Scalise pressed Frieden over whether it’s active in giving the White House recommendations on what actions to take on travel between West African countries and the United States from a public health perspective, but Frieden would not say for certain what its interaction with the White House has consisted of so far.
“Have y’all had any conversations within the White House about a travel ban, and whether or not the President has the authority, because many of us have said the President does have the authority to do it today,” Scalise asked during a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on the response to Ebola.
“From the point of the view of the CDC, we’re willing to consider anything,” Frieden said, repeating his standard response about flights coming from Ebola-affected countries.
“But have you considered it and have you ruled it out, or have you not considered it at all?” Scalise pressed on, but Frieden did not answer. “Have you had conversations with the White Houseabout a travel ban?”
“We have discussed many aspects — ” Frieden began, but was cut off by Scalise, asking yet again, “How about a travel ban?”
Norm- I am going to yank your chain.
Do you ever sleep?
Chronic insomniac. I sleep an hour or two here and there. Drives me nuts nut watcha gonna do? ;)
I have seen you posting at all times-just wondering
Med stuff basically. I never did sleep for crap to begin with though. But it does give me lotsa time to do all the reading research we were talking about earlier. So I;m rarely bored ;)
Keep it up. I like your posts (generally)
I heard a report that CDC personnel chartered a flight to get somewhere because coordinating travel was difficult.
Youbetcha.
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