During Friday’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest argued that new Ebola czar Ron Klain was qualified for the position despite his lack of a healthcare background because the White House was not looking for an
UPDATE #2: Arlington and Fairfax public health officials issued a statement saying that “medical authorities are confident that she does not have Ebola,” and describing the woman’s travel history as “uncertain.” The statement says: “Based on the public health investigation, which included
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) held a press conference on Friday outlining the state’s response to the Ebola virus. “DHS officials have been in constant contact with the Centers for Disease Control and coordinated with federal and local health officials to
On his Thursday show’s “Ya Burnt!” segment, “Late Night” host Seth Meyers took on the controversy surrounding the Center for Disease Control and its director Dr. Thomas Frieden’s response to the Ebola outbreak. Meyers ridiculed Frieden and suggested embattled NFL
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Texas Health Presbyterian nurse Briana Aguirre explained to host Anderson Cooper why she wouldn’t trust her hospital with her own Ebola treatment. Aguirre was joined by her attorney, Bob Kelly. Partial transcript
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) elaborated on remarks he had made on Glenn Beck’s radio show a day earlier slamming Center for Disease Control head Dr. Thomas Frieden. But in his
On Wednesday, Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith went off on the national media for its coverage of Ebola and downplayed any possible risks of Ebola to his viewers. That critique drew the ire of some, including conservative talker Rush Limbaugh.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin, criticized Fox News anchor Shepard Smith for his statement that members of the media were overplaying the threat of Ebola in the US to drive ratings on Thursday. Levin
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Obama administration for refusing to ban flights from countries with massive outbreaks of the Ebola virus and urged Congress to reconvene to pass a flight ban on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee criticized the Center for Disease Control for making “monitoring fevers and relying on people self-reporting” as the crux of their strategy for combatting the
According to reports from Bend, OR FOX affiliate KTVZ and the Associated Press, an Oregon woman who applied for health coverage through Cover Oregon said the state exchange mailed her the personal information of two other applicants. Ann Migliaccio told
Thursday while President Barack Obama was addressing the latest Ebola developments, he said he is open to the idea of appointing an Ebola czar. Obama said, “We’re going into flu season, which by the way means that people will be
Thursday while President Barack Obama addressed the latest developments on the two health care workers who have contracted Ebola from their patient the late Thomas Eric Duncan he said he has no “philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban,” but
Anna Younker, the owner of a bridal shop that nurse Amber Vinson visited for several hours on Saturday, October 11, said that she thought local officials were handling the situation in a “not serious way” in an interview on Thursday’s
Thursday at a congressional subcommittee hearing on Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden was asked to respond to a claim he had allegedly made that a travel ban would hurt “fledgling democracies” and therefore hurt
Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) reported that the federal government has not given the state supplies it requested to protect itself against the Ebola virus on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “We’ve asked for testing kits from the CDC,
Thursday on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” real estate mogul Donald Trump called into question President Barack Obama mental health for refusing enact a travel ban on commercial flights from West African nations suffering with the Ebola outbreak. When
On Thursday afternoon, CNN chief medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen read a prepared statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital defending the decision to move Nina Pham, the first Texas healthcare worker infected with Ebola, to the National Institute of Health in
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reported that US embassies Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia are processing over 100 visa applications daily and argued that the US should halt visas applications until the outbreak
On Thursday’s “NOW w/Alex Wagner” on MSNBC, host Alex Wagner and her guest Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s “The Reid Report,” took aim at those criticizing the federal government and in particular President Barack Obama and his administration for their
