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hlthe2b

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4. This isn't the CDC or Public Health Service's first national/international threat

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 01:28 PM

Oct 2014

they aren't sitting on their thumbs trying to answer phones.

The CDC teams deployed for immediate response here and overseas are EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers) and most of them are Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. That you don't know about them actually speaks to how well they've done their job over the past 50 plus years. http://www.cdc.gov/eis/

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The Surgeon General - what I didn't know. [View all] hedgehog Oct 2014 OP

exactly. appointing an ebola czar was a cave, ideally we could have insisted on the sg confirmation unblock Oct 2014 #1

Technically yes-- but the public health service commissioned corps are already engaged via their hlthe2b Oct 2014 #2

I think the problem here is that someone has to be in charge - hedgehog Oct 2014 #3

This isn't the CDC or Public Health Service's first national/international threat hlthe2b Oct 2014 #4

I apologize for being unclear in my reference. hedgehog Oct 2014 #6

Gotcha... Yeah the politicallization of all this is quite irritating and fruitless. hlthe2b Oct 2014 #7

I knew as soon as I made my post that I had been unclear - hedgehog Oct 2014 #10

And 65 USPHS doctors and nurses will staff the 25-bed hospital built by U.S. forces in Liberia... pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #11

Did you know we have a Surgeon General? GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #5

Well, Acting Surgeon General. Still, it's a nice opportunity hedgehog Oct 2014 #8

Acting... n/t hlthe2b Oct 2014 #9

He has the exact same powers as a confirmed SG, branford Oct 2014 #12

That isn't the point at all, but... hlthe2b Oct 2014 #13

Maybe true, but as I point out in my prior post, branford Oct 2014 #14