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Ebola Czar Surfaces At Ebola Messaging Event Staged White House Gathering Bears Marks Of His Political Crafting
WND
WASHINGTON – The question of what has happened to newly appointed Ebola czar Ron Klain was answered Wednesday afternoon at a White House messaging event.
The message as the event in the East Room unfolded appeared to be President Obama is preparing the way for Americans to understand why closing borders to West Africa would not be an effective way to stop the Ebola crisis from becoming a worldwide pandemic.
The unspoken background of the White House event remained the continued opposition to travel bans or mandatory quarantines, and the possibility the State Department might decide to permit Ebola-infected foreign-nationals from seeking treatment here.
As the event began at 4 p.m., the newly appointed Ebola czar, Klain, was the last person to be seated, taking a place in the front row.
Reporters spotted among the audience Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, Department of Homeland Security presidential adviser Lisa Monaco, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
After Klain was seated as two unidentified men in lab coats entered and stood on the podium, followed by various health-care workers the White House identified as having just returned from West Africa, or about to travel to there, to treat Ebola patients.
The White House identified the audience as primarily health-care workers and representatives of various nongovernmental health organizations, as well as “the faith and African diaspora communities and individuals from across the government” working as part of the Obama administration’s “whole-of-government response to Ebola.”
Repsted with permission
