“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesFactsAuthorityPatientDetermineIsolationSymptomsEbolaOutbreaks Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.” IfsCountryWould BeCareAbleNumbersCasesWeekSourceNeededModelsIncreaseWorkersInternationalIllHealth CareFallenTreatmentCentsEightyBansSealsFeatsTransmissionDelayedPersonnelQuarantineEbolaOutbreaks Author:Atul Gawande
“It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldAttentionTalkingTelevisionPerceptionDrawsResponsibleThreatBordersReportsHomeworkEbolaIrresponsibility Author:Miles O'Brien
“The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.” MindDoeCountryLinesCasesDoubtBottomSpreadNo DoubtBottom LineEbolaImportation Author:Tom Frieden
“The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.” WayStatesCareAbleMovingCan DoUnitedUnited StatesSurvivalPercentDoctorsWestRateAvailableBordersSophisticatedSupportiveNeedlesEbolaFatalityWest AfricaDoctors Without Borders Author:William Schaffner
“Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola.” CasesEbola Author:Tom Frieden
“I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.” ThinkingStatesFactsUnitedCasesUnited StatesEbola Author:John McCain
“We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.” PeopleWorldNeedsValuesSocialPracticeShareBenefitsGlobalizationEmbeddedShared ValuesEconomic Globalization Author:Kofi Annan
“If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.” IfsPartyContagiousCocktailsEbolaCocktail Parties Author:Rand Paul