The false statements the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made during the current Ebola outbreak are almost too numerous to mention, but here are some of the worst which point to the agency’s sheer ignorance and stupidity:
US has had international travelers who got deadly viruses similar to #Ebola, and none spread the disease to others here.
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 1, 2014
Yet the U.S. also had an international traveler by the name of Thomas Eric Duncan who spread Ebola to two nurses who treated him in Dallas, Texas, which brings us to this tweet by the CDC’s Director, Dr. Tom Frieman:
We need to do everything for this person who is fighting for his life. We know how to stop #Ebola & we will stop it here.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) October 1, 2014
That obviously never happened.
@Medtaz165 Any US hospital following CDC’s infection control recommendations can safely manage a patient w/ #Ebola.
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 1, 2014
But on the CDC’s very own web site, the agency states that Ebola, a “dangerous and exotic” virus, necessitates containment in “Biosafety Level 4″ labs observing the “highest level of biological safety,” which excludes the vast majority of U.S. hospitals.
It’s not impossible that there could be add’l #Ebola cases associated w/ US patient in coming weeks, but I am confident we will contain it.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) September 30, 2014
Dr. Frieden exhibits overconfidence… or sheer stupidity.
@SaharaPeters CDC has protocols in place to protect against further spread of disease.
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 1, 2014
And 2+2=5.
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