President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She?

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The Federalist:

President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She?

By Mollie Hemingway OCTOBER 14, 2014

 

As the Ebola situation in West Africa continues to deteriorate, some U.S. officials are claiming that they would have been able to better deal with the public health threat if only they had more money.

 

Dr. Francis Collins, who heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told The Huffington Post, “Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.” Hillary Clinton also claimed that funding restrictions were to blame for inability to combat Ebola.

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REPORT: OFFICIALS HAVEN'T TESTED WHETHER COUGHING, SNEEZING CAN SPREAD EBOLA

 

Experts have reportedly not tested whether Ebola patients can infect others by coughing or sneezing even as one of the top experts on the particular strain of Ebola that has ravaged West Africa believes the virus is "primed" to go airborne.

Dr. David Sanders, a Purdue University biology professor who "has been studying the virus since 2003 – specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells," told The Indy Channel (rtv6 ABC) that the Ebola virus "can enter the lung from the airway side" and is "primed to have respiratory transmission."

"We need to be taking this into consideration," Sanders said. "What if? This is not a crazy, 'What if?' This is not a wild, 'What if?'"

According to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report, "in August, researchers in West Africa, Europe and the United States sequenced the genomes of Ebola virus isolated from dozens of patients and found it acquired mutations as it spread," but "they did not test whether those genetic changes affect its ability to infect and survive."

Charles Bailey, executive director of the National Center of Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at George Mason University, told the outlet, “Is a mutation capable of making it airborne transmissible? Nobody knows.” He also reportedly "said that... concentrated aerosols of Ebola have shown the ability to infect" in experiments with monkeys.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/13/Report-Officials-Haven-t-Tested-Whether-Coughing-Sneezing-Can-Spread-Ebola

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WHO: Ebola Death Rate Now 70%; 10,000 New Cases a Week Possible

 

GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.

WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the grim figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, WHO had estimated the death rate at around 50 percent.

Aylward said the 70 percent death rate was "a high mortality disease" in any circumstance and that the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to get sick people isolated and provide treatment as early as possible.

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/who-ebola-death-rate-now-70-10000-new-cases-week-possible

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Obama Planned To Cut CDC Budget For Public Health Preparedness And Response

 

President Obama proposed to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) funding in his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal.

 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is currently blasting out ads accusing Republicans of voting to cut CDC’s Ebola-fighting capabilities in February 2011 by voting for a bill to cut $60 billion from the federal budget, including from the CDC, in anticipation of the fiscal year 2012 budget battle. The House passed the bill on Feb. 19, 2011, but the bill never passed the Senate.

 

But the Obama administration proposed to cut CDC funding, including for public health preparedness and response, in its very own budget proposal released the very same week as the House vote.

 

Obama’s original budget plan for fiscal year 2012 cut funding for a CDC public health emergency preparedness program by $72 million. The proposed cuts would have taken money away from municipal and state health departments to hire health workers and monitor for public health hazards and disease outbreaks.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/14/obama-planned-to-cut-cdc-budget-for-public-health-preparedness-and-response/

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October 15, 2014

The case of the invisible Ebola Czar

By Thomas Lifson

Did you know that we already have an Ebola Czar? But she’s MIA, at least as far as the media is concerned. Mollie Hemmingway of The Federalist has a great article on Dr. Nicole Lurie, who is:

 

one of HHS’ eight assistant secretaries is the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, whose job it is to “lead the nation in preventing, responding to and recovering from the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters, ranging from hurricanes to bioterrorism.”

 

In the video below, the woman who heads that office, Dr. Nicole Lurie,

 

Sounds like a perfect description of an Ebola Czar to me. So why haven’t we heard anything about Dr. Lurie?

 

There are a few interesting things about the scandal Lurie was embroiled in years ago. You can—and should—read all about it in the Los Angeles Times‘ excellent front-page expose from November 2011, headlined: “Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal: A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist.” This Forbespiece is also interesting.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/the_case_of_the_invisible_ebola_czar.html

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Listening To President Obama’s Ebola Advice Could Get People Killed

OCTOBER 15, 2014 By Dan McLaughlin

Contrary to President Obama’s recent claim, riding the bus in West African countries afflicted with Ebola could be lethal. http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/15/listening-to-president-obamas-ebola-advice-could-get-people-killed/

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Obama Has An Ebola Czar. She Re-Directed Federal Research Money to a Democrat Donor

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 15th, 2014 at 03:45 PM | 1

You may be wondering why Barack Obama, with his propensity to name “czars” for every problem that ails us, has not named an Ebola Czar. The reason is because he http://www.redstate.com/2014/10/15/obama-has-an-ebola-czar-she-re-directed-federal-research-money-to-a-democrat-donor/