Obama Appoints ‘Political Hack’ With No Medical Training Ebola Czar and then Goes Golfing With ESPN Host Tony Kornheiser
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NIH Tells a Big Whopper: Ebola Vaccine Would’ve Been Found Had It Not Been for Budget Cuts
Sunday, October 19th, 2014
NIH Wasted $39,643,352 Studying These and Many Other Unnecessary
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(DCist) Speaking with HuffPo the Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr Francis Collins said that budget cuts and “stagnant spending” has significantly slowed down the potential to find a vaccine to treat the (Ebola) virus.
Not true, according to the Washington Free Beacon which uncovered $39,643,352 worth of NIH studies within the past several years that have gone to questionable research projects which include:
- $2,873,440 Trying to Figure Out Why Lesbians are Obese;
- $466,642 Why Fat Girls Have a Tough Time Getting Dates;
- $2,075,611 Encouraging Seniors to Join Choirs;
Besides these wasteful federal research projects, the NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV ($372,460); HIV & Drug Users in rural areas ($693,000); HIV Smokers ($763,519); Pregnant Smokers ($380,145); Teen Moms ($243,839) and Meth Addicts ($360,113) together with text message interventions to attempt to get obese people to lose weight have cost $2,707,067
NIH research on obesity has led to additional spending $2,101,064 on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a persons weight and $374,670 to put fruit on vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.
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Obama Watch Appoints Ebola Czar: ‘We Weren’t Looking for Ebola Expert’
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Oh No! 3rd Health Care Worker Exposed to Ebola Travels, Boarding a Cruise Ship Now in Quarantine
Friday, October 17th, 2014
(NY Times) Adding a new disturbing and troubling dimension to the search for Americans exposed to Ebola, the U.S. State Dept said today that another health care worker of Texas Presbyterian Hospital traveled out of Dallas and boarded a cruise ship with a companion on Sunday the 12 October in Galveston, Texas
This latest health care worker who shouldn’t be traveling, is only identified as a Lab Supervisor according to the LA Times and is now being isolated aboard a Carnival Cruise Ship near Belize, which has been denied permission to dock to prevent the possible further spread of the communicable disease which the World Health Organization announced this week has a 70% mortality rate.
What if Obama had issued a travel ban to foreign nationals wanting to come to the United States from Ebola ravaged West Africa as some 30 other nations have already done?
The 26 year old Liberian man Thomas Duncan who died from the infectious disease last week, wouldn’t have arrived into the United States contaminating and cross contaminating potentially hundreds of Americans with the deadly Ebola virus which has already killed thousands.
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Obama Administration/CDC Regarding Ebola Crisis: “We Know How to Control Ebola” — Huh?
Thursday, October 16th, 2014
(Real Clear Politics) Dr Ben Carson: ‘We Should Have Designated Location for Ebola Patients–Travel Ban Makes Imminent Sense’
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr Tom Frieden, appearing before a Congressional Committee Thursday according to FOX News in response to questioning about putting a travel ban into place from those countries in West Africa to the United States:
Frieden: The CDC knows “how to control Ebola” using “tried and true measures. ” That the government will “consider any options” to protect Americans however Frieden, continued to argue against a travel ban, over his apparent desire to “protect fledgling economies.”
Huh?
There is no inherent right of foreign nationals to travel into the United States.
Had Obama done his duty to protect Americans and imposed a travel ban from West Africa before the 26 year old Liberian man Thomas Duncan traveled into D/FW Airport Texas, in all probability the Ebola virus would not have arrived into the United States, infecting two Texas nurses with the deadly disease which according to the LA Times has a 70% mortality rate and which the World Health Organization warns that Ebola cases could skyrocket in weeks.
Who knows how many others have now been exposed in Texas and Ohio where 29 year old nurse Amber Vinson recently traveled and while exhibiting Ebola symptoms, boarded a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland, Ohio this week potential contaminating and cross contaminating hundreds of unsuspected Americans.
When is the Obama Administration going to do their first duty to protect Americans by imposing a travel ban from those West Africa countries in which the Ebola virus has already killed thousands, instead of worrying about ‘protecting the fledgling economies’ of other nations?
CDC Mixed Messages: Second Texas Nurse Should Not Have Traveled Monday — Those Exposed Risk “Very Low” Huh?
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Obama Administration Handling of Ebola Crisis –Image: Feisty Floridian
(Reuters) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr Thomas Frieden said on Wednesday, he believes the risk to passengers who shared a Frontier Airlines flight on Monday with the Dallas health care worker infected with Ebola are “very low.”
Mixed Messages: CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden also said today, that the second Texas Nurse identified as 29 yr old Amber Vinson infected with Ebola Reuters reports should not have traveled on an airplane Monday.
Are the Frontier Airlines passengers and crew, together with all of the people that had contact with Vinson in Ohio while she had Ebola symptoms and was admittedly running a temperature of 99.5 at risk of contracting the deadly virus or are they not?
If Vinson should not have traveled on an airplane on Monday, what comfort does this provide to all of those persons that had contact with Vinson in Summit County Ohio before she went to the Cleveland, Ohio airport?
More here Dallas Officials Warn More Ebola Cases Could Be Coming -WSJ
Obama’s Watch: Now a Second Texas Health Care Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Ebola & Team Obama ‘The Gift to America That Keeps on Giving’
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(NBC News) A second Texas health care worker who provided care to the 26 year old Liberian man Thomas Duncan who died last week, has now contracted the Ebola virus according to preliminary test results and was immediately isolated at Texas Presbyterian Hospital.
Flashback: Remember in September when Obama claimed, that the Ebola virus shouldn’t reach our shores.
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Ebola Coming Soon to a City Near You?
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Ebola Arrives Into the U.S. –Image: Legal Insurrection/Law@Twitter
(Weekly Standard) Those looking for good news on the fight against the Ebola virus will not find much encouragement from Gen John F Kelly, USMC Commander of the U.S. Southern Command who said last week, that if the disease reaches Central America, “Its really ‘Katie bar the door’ and there will be a mass migration to the United States.”
On Friday, Fox News Latino reported that the deadly Ebola virus may have already reached Latin America–how much longer will it be before it spreads across our porous Southern border?
Flashback: Remember in September, when Obama claimed that the Ebola virus “shouldn’t reach our shores.”
According to NPR the Dallas Nurse currently being treated for Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital contracted the virus despite the safety gear that she wore, while caring for the 26 year old Liberian man that died last week from the deadly disease.
Related: WHO: Ebola Cases Set to Surge 10X in a Few Weeks -USA Today
Disease Modelers Project a Rapidly Rising Toll From Ebola –Science Mag