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Obama: I 'Hugged And Kissed' Nurses Treating Ebola Patients In Atlanta
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday that the
government's response to the Ebola epidemic will be effective after a
meeting with his top cabinet secretaries at the White House.
"The key thing to understand about this disease is these protocols work,"
Obama said, referring to the government's strategy of identifying, isolating
and then monitoring the contacts of people sick with the disease. "We know
that because they've been used for decades now."
Concern about the protocols has mounted since two nurses in Dallas became
sick after caring for the late Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be
diagnosed with the disease in the United States. Earlier on Wednesday the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the second nurse
who became infected had violated protocol by traveling aboard a commercial
flight the day before she started having symptoms.
Obama said he had no fear of catching Ebola last month when he visited Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, where doctors successfully treated three
Americans who'd been infected in Africa.
"I shook hands with, hugged, and kissed, not the doctors, but a couple of
the nurses at Emory because of the valiant work that they did," Obama said.
"In treating one of the patients, they followed the protocols, they knew
what they were doing, and I felt perfectly safe doing so."
National Nurses United, the nation's largest nurses union, claimed in a
Tuesday press conference that such protocols weren't in place at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas when Duncan arrived in September. The
Centers for Disease Control acknowledged Wednesday that the sick nurses may
have contracted Ebola by caring for Duncan without wearing the right
protective gear, but the agency said it had redoubled its efforts to ensure
health care workers have the right equipment and training.
"If we do these protocols properly, follow the steps, get the information
out, then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreak in this country are
very, very low," Obama said. "But, I think what we've all learned over the
last several weeks is that folks here in this country and a lot of
nonspecialized hospitals and clinics don't have that much experience dealing
with these issues, and so we're going to have to push out this information
as aggressively as possible and that's the instructions I've provided to my
team."
While Ebola has sickened more than 8,000 people in West Africa, the two
Texas nurses are the only people diagnosed with Ebola so far who have
contracted the disease in the U.S.
Obama: I 'Hugged And Kissed' Nurses Treating Ebola Patients In Atlanta
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday that the
government's response to the Ebola epidemic will be effective after a
meeting with his top cabinet secretaries at the White House.
"The key thing to understand about this disease is these protocols work,"
Obama said, referring to the government's strategy of identifying, isolating
and then monitoring the contacts of people sick with the disease. "We know
that because they've been used for decades now."
Concern about the protocols has mounted since two nurses in Dallas became
sick after caring for the late Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be
diagnosed with the disease in the United States. Earlier on Wednesday the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the second nurse
who became infected had violated protocol by traveling aboard a commercial
flight the day before she started having symptoms.
Obama said he had no fear of catching Ebola last month when he visited Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, where doctors successfully treated three
Americans who'd been infected in Africa.
"I shook hands with, hugged, and kissed, not the doctors, but a couple of
the nurses at Emory because of the valiant work that they did," Obama said.
"In treating one of the patients, they followed the protocols, they knew
what they were doing, and I felt perfectly safe doing so."
National Nurses United, the nation's largest nurses union, claimed in a
Tuesday press conference that such protocols weren't in place at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas when Duncan arrived in September. The
Centers for Disease Control acknowledged Wednesday that the sick nurses may
have contracted Ebola by caring for Duncan without wearing the right
protective gear, but the agency said it had redoubled its efforts to ensure
health care workers have the right equipment and training.
"If we do these protocols properly, follow the steps, get the information
out, then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreak in this country are
very, very low," Obama said. "But, I think what we've all learned over the
last several weeks is that folks here in this country and a lot of
nonspecialized hospitals and clinics don't have that much experience dealing
with these issues, and so we're going to have to push out this information
as aggressively as possible and that's the instructions I've provided to my
team."
While Ebola has sickened more than 8,000 people in West Africa, the two
Texas nurses are the only people diagnosed with Ebola so far who have
contracted the disease in the U.S.
