Ebola survivor: No time to waste as Obama ups aid
Source: AP-Excite
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON (AP) An American doctor who survived Ebola said there's no time to waste as President Barack Obama outlined his plan to ramp up the U.S. response to the epidemic in West Africa.
"We can't afford to wait months, or even weeks, to take action, to put people on the ground," Dr. Kent Brantly told senators Tuesday.
Obama called the Ebola crisis a threat to world security as he ordered up to 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region along with an aggressive effort to train health care workers and deliver field hospitals. Under the plan, the government could end up devoting $1 billion to containing the disease.
"If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people affected, with profound economic, political and security implications for all of us," Obama said after briefings in Atlanta with doctors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from Emory University, where Brantly and two other aid workers with Ebola have been treated.
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President Barack Obama, left, talks during a meeting with Emory University doctors and healthcare professionals at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama traveled to the CDC, to address the Ebola crisis and announced that he is sending 3,000 American troops to West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola epidemic. Sitting with Obama is Dr. Bruce S. Ribner, Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Thanks for this OP. Thank God we're doing more on the ebola front. Thank you, PO!
groundloop
(11,488 posts)No matter what Pres. Obama does the orange man will knock him for it and obstruct obstruct obstruct.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... doesn't matter what PO does it's the wrong decision. In this instance, Republican's probably cringed to hear this particular obstruction, as it sounded like Boehner actually CARED or UNDERSTOOD the ebola crisis. We all remember how long it took Reagan to address the AIDS virus. Had a Republican been President right now, no telling how many years would have passed before they would have taken action.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)I suppose they could go the climate change denial route and simply deny Ebola exists, or isn't a man-made problem, or is just God's judgement against sinners or something.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)I vastly prefer our troops be used to help protect people for a change.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Getting people behind the fight against Ebola is a balancing act - you have to get their attention
without causing a panic.