Perry and Obama discuss Ebola situation

Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Perry asked the president to rectify the fact that state health officials have not been contacted or spoken with the administration’s so-called Ebola czar, Ron Klain. He invited Klain to Texas to meet with top experts.

“The president readily agreed,” promising that Klain would contact Dr. Lakey, according to Perry’s office, which provided more details of the call.

Obama also agreed to have Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell look into Texas A&M University’s application to manufacture ZMapp, an Ebola treatment.

Lastly, Perry asked for more “streamlined and accurate” information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the event of future Ebola cases. And he asked the president to prod CDC to reexamine Ebola-related guidelines for waste disposal; lab testing; hospitals that can treat Ebola; and handling of remains of Ebola victims.
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This sounds like an unusually productive conversation between the two.  On other issues such as the border, Obama has been less than cooperative in dealing with issues that effect Texas.  It does raise the question of just what Klain has been doing since he was appointed as Ebola czar.

Meanwhile, former President George W. Bush made a visit to the hospital in Dallas where the Liberian man who brought Ebola into the country was treated.  I think the hospital has suffered from patients being unwilling to use its facilities since the man died and the nurses came down with the contagious disease.  At his point the 21 day incubation period has passed for all those who were in contact with teh Liberian.

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