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October 19, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 6 Comments

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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If only it wasn’t for the Republican budget cuts, the CDC could have told nurses to cover all exposed skin months ago. Also they wouldn’t have put a care worker showing symptoms on a plane.

Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear “with no skin showing,” a top federal health official said Sunday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said those caring for an Ebola patient in Dallas were left vulnerable because some of their skin was exposed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working on revisions to safety protocols.

What exactly needed revising? Is this some new brilliant medical discovery or is the CDC just completely incompetent? Considering the events of the past month, all signs point to complete incompetence.

If we get an Ebola outbreak in this country, then the CDC may finally revise its guidelines to enable a travel ban on Ebolaites entering the US.

Now we have Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff playing Ebola Czar despite a complete lack of medical experience while our first line of defense at the airport is a questionnaire.

Maybe now that Joe Biden’s son got booted for cocaine use, we can plug him in as the new Ebola Czar.

Meanwhile the CDC has to keep sending mixed messages, assuring the public that there’s no need for a travel ban because you can’t catch Ebola from anything except having Ebola tainted blood injected into your veins while telling care workers that they have to be careful because, shockingly enough, Ebola is highly infectious.

This is what happens when politics trumps science and medicine.