Public supports travel ban to block Ebola; CDC and White House push back

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15. And, the reasoning behind it.. from your link, ssy

“I understand that there are calls to do this,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday, referring to an outright ban on travel from the three countries grappling with Ebola outbreaks. “The way we’re going to reduce risk to Americans is [to]… stop it at the source in Africa.”

A travel ban, he argued – as he has many times in recent weeks – would hamper that effort.

“If we do things that unintentionally make it harder to get that response in, to get supplies in, that make it harder for those governments to manage, to get everything from economic activity to travel going, it’s going to become much harder to stop the outbreak at the source,” he said. If that were to happen, it would spread for more months and potentially to other countries, and that would increase rather than decrease the risk to Americans. Above all, do no harm.”


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