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On Monday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Thomas Frieden announced a new policy on health care workers returning from Ebola-plagued West Africa. Parroting President Obama’s Saturday radio address, Frieden cautioned that Americans must be “guided by the science,” not fear. Sorry. The Obama administration’s half-way approach is based on political correctness. It ignores

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced its new Ebola strategy Monday. Beyond more training and more protective gear for hospital staff, the CDC is also encouraging states to designate certain hospitals for Ebola preparation. For example, Gov. Cuomo has named eight Ebola “supercenters” in New York. The CDC is presuming that a few

The news that a nurse who’d treated Thomas Eric Duncan has Ebola herself puts the lie to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s repeated assurances for months that “US hospitals can safely manage patients with Ebola.” The nurse is now in isolation at the same Dallas hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian. Dr. Dan Varga, the

Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced on Tuesday that a man who flew from Liberia to Dallas last week is infected with Ebola and being treated at Texas Presbyterian Hospital. The CDC should discourage panic. But Frieden went overboard. Listening to him,you’d think C-D-C stands for Centers for Denial

President Obama told the United Nations on Thursday that “we are not moving fast enough” to curb the Ebola outbreak engulfing Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. But Sen. Jim Inhofe (R. Oklahoma) is saying “not so fast” to the president’s request for $1 billion and 3,000 military personnel to fight Ebola. Inhofe is right to demand answers about how

Grim forecasts released separately on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization say that by the end of January, the Ebola epidemic engulfing Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, will explode to at least 100 times its current size. An estimated 550,000 to 1.4 million people will be infected compared with

America is silently acquiescing to President Obama’s extraordinarily expensive and flawed plan to fight Ebola in West Africa.  On Tuesday, Obama announced he is committing $763 million dollars and 3,000 military personnel to taming the outbreak that so far has killed 2,400 people. Though help is urgently needed there, the plan does too little to protect

Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded the alarm on Monday about the escalating danger of a terrorist attack on America by ISIS and other jihadists. Too bad the Obama administration lacks the resolve or sense of urgency to meet this danger head on. Worse, political