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elleng

(130,975 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2014, 04:20 PM Oct 2014

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White House to Detail Ebola Response Plan in Briefing.

Source: NYTimes

Under mounting pressure over their handling of the Ebola crisis, White House officials are planning a Friday afternoon briefing to outline how the government is responding to the epidemic.

The 4:30 p.m. briefing will feature administration officials including Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of health and human services; and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

The briefing will be streamed live here. http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/03/?entry=1505

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White House to Detail Ebola Response Plan in Briefing. (Original Post) elleng Oct 2014 OP

One thing is for sure, Mr.Bill Oct 2014 #1

I'm sure they will madokie Oct 2014 #2

How he stumbles through this crisis Mr.Bill Oct 2014 #3

True. Perry's stumbling through will probably cause an epidemic. Louisiana1976 Oct 2014 #8

Or endear him to the dumbass puke voters madokie Oct 2014 #9

Well the GOPers and Jindal have solve the problem Iliyah Oct 2014 #4

Or areas in America to other areas....freaking out is all the GOP knows how to do. Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #6

Good, because The Great American Freak out needs actual epidemiologists to talk, not just talking Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #5

Maybe we will get some 'new normal' out of this event!!!1 nt Earth_First Oct 2014 #7

Mr.Bill

(24,303 posts)

1. One thing is for sure,

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 04:26 PM

Oct 2014

Texas can't handle it. I wonder if they will resist everything the federal government tries to do. Probably.

madokie

(51,076 posts)

2. I'm sure they will

Reply to Mr.Bill (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 04:44 PM

Oct 2014

they have the dumbest bastid south of Oklahoma as governor
I'm looking at you gov. fallin

Mr.Bill

(24,303 posts)

3. How he stumbles through this crisis

Reply to madokie (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 04:54 PM

Oct 2014

will be his undoing as a presidential candidate.

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)

8. True. Perry's stumbling through will probably cause an epidemic.

Reply to Mr.Bill (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:56 PM

Oct 2014

madokie

(51,076 posts)

9. Or endear him to the dumbass puke voters

Reply to Louisiana1976 (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 07:11 PM

Oct 2014

theres always that possibility you know

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

4. Well the GOPers and Jindal have solve the problem

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:14 PM

Oct 2014

Don't allow anyone from Ebola stricken areas to fly into the United States.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

6. Or areas in America to other areas....freaking out is all the GOP knows how to do.

Reply to Iliyah (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:44 PM

Oct 2014

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. Good, because The Great American Freak out needs actual epidemiologists to talk, not just talking

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:41 PM

Oct 2014

bobble heads that were also terrorism experts the hour before and economic experts the hour before that.

Close the Texas borders!

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)

7. Maybe we will get some 'new normal' out of this event!!!1 nt

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:32 PM

Oct 2014

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