Obama Defends C.D.C.’s Ebola Rules as ‘Sensible, Based in Science’

WHITE HOUSE SUPPORTS CDC GUIDELINES FOR CIVILIANS, EXPLAINS DIFFERENT TREATMENT FOR U.S. TROOPS

NEW YORK TIMES                                                              Oct. 28, 2014
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday said that new Ebola guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were “sensible, based in science” and would help keep Americans safe while not discouraging volunteers from traveling to West Africa to battle the disease at its source....

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President Obama discussed the two Ebola patients who contracted the virus on American soil and reiterated that the epidemic must be stopped at its source.Video by Reuters on Publish Date October 28, 2014. Photo by Jabin Botsford/The New York Times.

White House officials tried to explain why the nation’s top Army officer had ordered quarantines for soldiers in West Africa who have far less contact with Ebola patients than do civilian nurses and doctors in those countries who will not face quarantines under the C.D.C. guidelines.

Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said that it would be more efficient for the Army to simply isolate all of its returning soldiers rather than trying to assess which ones present greater risks for contracting Ebola.

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