Should Center for Disease Control (CDC) Director Tom Frieden Be Fired?

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And even those places ended up buried in hazardous waste that they couldn't transport. Emory had to send staff to Home Depot to pick up large outdoor trash containers to store their waste on-site while figuring out how to deal with it.

You'd think that something from that experience would have been passed on to Dallas so they wouldn't end up with it stacked to the ceiling.

He was too quick to assume "breach of protocol" prior to any investigation or even considering that maybe protocol is inadequate. Apologies after the fact aren't good enough, imo. He was too quick into defensiveness.

Since the CDC authorized the 2nd patient's commercial air travel with a temperature, even while he's saying they were told no commercial travel, and the hospital is saying they weren't told anything about travel, I'd say communication is not exactly his strong point. Finger pointing all around.

I hope they get Pham to Emory or Nebraska too. She's not safe at Dallas; they simply aren't equipped to deal with it.

The sooner they get them both into facilities with appropriate equipment, training and staff, the better for the patients and anybody else they may contact.