By Sharyl Attkisson
WASHINGTON (WJLA) – Since 2002, the U.S. government has given local health departments more than $9 billion tax dollars for emergency readiness. Billions more have gone to hospital preparedness and related efforts. So why has the U.S. Ebola response been marred by critical missteps?
“I have no doubt that we will control this importation or case of Ebola so it does not spread widely in this country,” says Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control.
But confidence has been pierced by the CDC’s wavering protocols and assurances, as one case has grown to four.
“At the state, local and even federal level, there have been a series of missteps that literally we cannot allow to happen again,” says Larry Gostin, a global health expert and Georgetown University law professor who is advising Obama officials on Ebola.
Those missteps range from a Texas hospital discharging Liberian Thomas Duncan while ill…
