Former Biden Chief of Staff to Lead Ebola Response
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Former Biden Chief of Staff to Lead Ebola Response
Jim Kuhnhenn, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is naming Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a trusted adviser at the Obama White House, as the point man on the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola crisis, the White House said Friday. Obama has been under pressure to name an Ebola “czar” to oversee health security in the U.S. and actions to help stem the outbreak in West Africa, where nearly 4,500 people have died from the virus. Klain has been out of government since leaving Biden’s office during the Obama’s first term. The White House said that Klain would…
Obama Alters Plans, Announces Increased Ebola Response
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
President Obama — alarmed that a second nurse in Dallas contracted Ebola and flew on Frontier Airlines Monday — altered his schedule Wednesday so he could reassure the public and announce “more aggressive” follow-up by the government’s disease detectives. The Centers for Disease Control and Protection will respond to the next Ebola case in the United States by deploying a rapid response group, which the president likened to a SWAT team during brief remarks in the Cabinet Room. The White House predicts that additional Ebola infections will occur. “We’re going to…
