And clear from Health Care Workers from around the country that theyre worried, that they donte feel prepared. In retrospect with 20 20 hindsight we could have sent a more robust Infection Control team and been more hands number on from day one about exactly how this should be managed. Ebola is unfamiliar, its scary. Getting it right is really, really important because the stakes are so high. But frieden is coming under serious fire for his medical hindsight, especially given that he said this just a few weeks ago when the firsta. S ebola patients were headed to america. Virtually any hospital in this country that can do isolation can do isolation for ebola. In fact, the administration all but promised that an outbreak would not come here, that if it did, we could catch it at the airport and on the rare chance that that didnt work, the hospitals would know just what to do. Now that much of that has largely failed and dr. Frieden yesterday had to admit it may get worse. Were concerned and would, unfortunately, not be surprised if we did see additional cases in Health Care Workers who also provided care to the index patient. So with more than 70 Health Care Workers now being monitored for this virus, were starting to hear suggestions like the one from our own bill oreilly last night. Frieden should resign. As he well knows. Charter flights could carry medical and military personnel to the affected areas in africa. Believing that civilian airport people in jfk or newark or Dulles Airport can spot ebola that is dormant, believing that, is stupid and irresponsible and puts all americans at risk. Earlier tonight i spoke with dr. Thomas frieden, the director of the centers for disease control. Sir, thank you very much for being here with us tonight. So with the cdc, its heart in the right place but its information misplaced and wrong no, let me correct you on that. Our information is clear and correct. But we do look at what happens and we adjust as we need to. We know how ebola spreads. We know how to stop it. We know what is happening, and right now were doing three things. First, making sure that the care of that nurse is safe and effective. We have more than 20 staff on the ground who are working around the clock making sure that those who care for her do it safely and that she get the best possible care. Second, were making sure that if ebola is found anywhere else in the country, we will put on to the ground immediately staff who can help the hospital do it right there. And third, were reminding doctors everywhere to think ebola. Because whatever you may think, we are an interconnected world. Understood. But when you say your information is clear and correct, thats not entirely true. I mean, you yourself assured the American Public that well stop that hasnt quite happened here in the United States, has it . We wish there hadnt been ann infection. Its terrible that a Health Care Worker got infected, but what were doing is making sure we stop the chains of transmission. You have to step back and say who is really at risk here . In west africa theres a lot of risk. Caring for ebola patients theres a risk and well work to minimize that and get it as low as possible. I understand that. Im not blaming you for ebola. Ebola is a disease that happens to be ravaging part of the world right now, and were trying to stop it from coming on our shores and trying to stop it from spreading. I realize thats your number one mandate right now. But lets just be honest about where we are. You did make that assurance, and now we have had somebody die in the United States from ebola. And now a nurse, a Health Care Workers that you assured us that the Health Care Workers would be trained and prepared, has now got this disease. And has as much as a 50 chance of dying. So the American Public looks at you and says why should we trust you and why should we trust the administration when barack obama told us were prepared if ebola reaches our shores and that the medical personnel adequately trained . The fact that a Health Care Worker became infected in the care of a patient with ebola is deeply troubling. What we have to do is take the facts where they are. We still know how to stop ebola. We have cared for patients for decades with ebola. We need to make sure that care is safe. But understanding that, right, already you admitted yourself that weve seen some flaws in the system. Some areas that need improvement. And thats why you took steps today to offer some of those improvements. Why not put a travel ban in place until weve shorn up the system . Weve already recommended that all nonessential travel to these countries be stopped for americans. Weve already put into place screening at the airport where people are leaving and screening at airports where people are arriving here. Were always looking at ways that we can better protect americans. But this is one. Ban. A travel ban from west africa until we are certain that our facilities here are up to the task and that our system has solved the flaws that you yourself admitted today exist. Above all, do no harm. If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic there. How is it going to make it harder to stop it . Because you cant get people in andw 7 out. Why cant we have charter flights . Charter flights dont do the same thing. What do you mean . They fly in and fly out. For a week i sat in liberia where the africa union team was stranded in senegal because commercial airline werent traveling. If we isolate these countries, whats not going to happen is disease staying there. Its going to spread more all over africa and well be at higher risk. How do you account for the fact that you called it a breach in protocol, the fact that this nurse hasb. ebola, this nurse t was wearing protective gear has ebola now. U a breach in protocol and not simply that the protocol itself was insufficient . We know how ebola spreads. We know how to stop it from spreading. But clearly, what happened at the hospital shouldnt have happened. So were now looking at that and saying, okay, whats everything we can do to make sure that any time someones caring for ebola, their risk is kept to an absolute minimum. But when i look at the cdcs website, it says when youre putting on thes protective gear as the medical personnel, the nurses have come out and complained that in some hospitals theyre posting it on the bulletin board. The nurse are saying a situation for me . You are only supposed to wear one pair of gloves. You dont have to cover your head, head gear, head cover, and you dont have to cover your feet. Wouldnt you admit that that is insufficient . No. We know how ebola spreads. It spreads by direct contact. And you know, sometimes more isnt better. You put on more layers, you put on more things, theyre harder to get on. Really . Yes, really. You would go into a highly infective patients room without covering your head and one pair of gloves and your feet exposed, you would do that . Absolutely. More is not always better. Better is better. Sometimes you put on more layers, harder to put on, harder to take off, you increase your risk of exposure. Thats what the science tells us. The doctors who treat this effectively always use the buddy system. It wasnt informed and wasnt apparently told to the doctors at the dallas hospital that the buddy system is if youre the doctor handling the patient and im your buddy i watch you put the stuff on, i watch1 5 you t the stuff off. Why wasnt that stressed to the doctors in texas . The most important thing to do is to have a site manager, someone who tracks how people put on and takequ, off their equipment why wasnt that done. In the isolation area. That is now in place. I wish it had been in place earlier. It is now in place. For any hospital in this country, ife1 they have a confirmed case of ebola, it will be in place there. This is all leading to the question youve been asked many times which is why shouldnt we be focusing the care of anybody in the United States that comes down with ebola in certain hospitals that are prepared to deal with it, hospitals like emory . Why shouldnt they all be airlifted there, to thoseirx facilities as opposed on ni an hoc basis for officials to figure it out on a website and site manager . Care safe and effective. Every hospital in this country has to be ready to diagnose ebola. Dying, yes, thats a nobrainer. But were talking about training. So what well do from this day forward is if theres another case, well send a team within hours. One of the things they will consider is should we transfer that patient. We are on the ground to deal with the needs on the ground. Our focus is protecting people. We have people at cdc who devoted their lives to that. I know that, i know that, an and the American People need to understand. Your goal ismoto protect us. I get that. But we have to be honest about failures so far. It seems like theres a significant list so far. Why wasnt this stuff done before we had rnq ebola patient come to the United States . Why now are we figuring it out with a disease that has such a high mortality rate . We have provided extensive equipment to hospitals so theyll dying it quickly. Weve surged with our response so that we track those patients. Those contacts with the initial patient every day theyve been tracked. None of them have fever. Ttheyrs through their risk period. But we still have airplanes coming into the United States from liberia and people who are being encouraged to selfreport. Ultimately, the only way and you may not like this but the only way well get our risk to zero here is to stop the outbreak in africa. We have some 3,000, 4,000 troops over there. Why cant we do that and impose the travel ban. Youre that convinced that charter flights cannot do the same thing that commercial airlines can do . Above all, we dont want to make the situation worse. If its worse and spreads more in africa, it will be more of a riske here. Our only goal is protecting americans. Thats our mission. We do that by protecting people here and by stopping threats abroad. Do you still believe that protects americans. Do you still believe, as the president said, that the chances of an Ebola Outbreak in the United States are extremely low . Its hard to stop ebola, but theres no doubt in my mind we will not have theres no doubt in my mind we will not in the u. S. We wont have a large outbreak, but do you admit we already have an outbreak . We have two cases, two patients who have been diagnosed. As i said, it is not impossible that some of the other workers who were exposed, as the nurse was exposed, will develop ebola. Thats why theyll all be monitored every day. What were doing is making sure excuse me, let me finish now. Were almost out of time and i want to give you a chance to respond to oreilly and dr. Manny alvarez and others who say you need to step down. Your response to those who are calling for your resignation . Im focused on protecting americans 24 7. Im focused on stopping the outbreak in africa and im preventing more americans from becoming exposed if patients come here. I appreciate your time here and all your effort. Thank you for being here. Brit hume is here. And dr. Friedens explanation on why the u. S. Is not establishing a travel ban plus their information has been clear and correct. Plus a deadly attack in saudi arabia. 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Frieden seems like a very nice man and probably a very fine doctor struggled with the fact that some of the things he was saying to you that the information was clear and it was correct and all that was manifestly not true based on what he himself ultimately conceded during the course of the interview. And iz explanation like previous ones that have been given for the reasons for not imposing a travel ban to keep people from infected areas out of this country for the time being i thought makes no sense. You would not have to have an actual ban on flights. You can do it through the visa system where you will not allow people with visas from those countries to come here for now. Flights would come and go. It wouldnt keep anybody from going there. The explanation is weak, and it leads to the suspicion, i think, among people watching and worried about this, that were not being told the whole truth about that. That may be on some broad basise unfair, but i think thats what fans the flames of alarm here that theyre trying so hard to avoid. Their point is that the way to stop it from comingcsh here to eradicate it over there, and the bigger the probleme grows over there, and they believe a travel ban will make it bigger, the worse off we will be here. Well, i dont disagree with that. But what i fail to see is how the travel ban of the kindzvoy just described and others have argued for would do that. Argued for would do that. I mean, were perfectly free4b send personnel in there at government expense perhaps but on charter planes, as you pointed out, or even on commercial flights. Were not talking about banning flights into the country. Were talking about selecting out people from those countries and keeping them from getting here for now. So i just dont buy the whole explanation that you couldnt get the necessary medical personnel in and out of the country and couldnt get patients out who needed to go elsewhere for treatment. I just dont think that argument holds up at all. It raises a question theres a real reason here, we just continue know what it is. He came out today, they had a press conference, they talked about failures in the setup that needed to be addressed. For example, the buddy system that i talked about. They call it like a what is it, somebody who sits and watches you. I cant remember the name of it. Site manager, there it is. They want you to have a sitee1 manager. They admit that wasnt done in dallas, texas. So clearly the protocols theyre already pushing have not been followed, and theyve had consequences. So i asked him at the top of the interview, some of the information you put out there has been wrong, like were prepared, the medical personnel knows what to do. And he didnt he did not cop to that. No, you know, its interesting we live in an era in which people in government seem unwilling ever to admit that they individually made a mistake. You sometimes hear5 the passiv voice, you know, ÷mistakes wer made with Nobody Associated with them. Josh earnest as i suspect youl show later on was saying today that were winning against isis in iraq. To all other evidence to the contrary. People will not admit they were wrong. Its an epidemic. I always thought that americans fo if somebody comes out and said, look, i made a mistake and i deeply regret it that you could move on from there. But in this case, were not seeing that. And i suspect its because they dont want to project the image that theyre faltering agency because they fear that will spread panic. Butk9 its the reverse. Before you go, what do you think about the calls for him to step down . Well, that raises the question of if he stepped down, who would step up . There are senior officials in the department of health and Human Services who have responsibility here. The secretary has responsibility here. There is an assistant secretary who has this specific area for preparation for disease outbreaks under her bailiwick. Most people dont know who she is or even the fact that she exists. Shes in effect an ebola czar. So, you know, i suspect that no matter who was doing the speaking, dr. Frieden or someone else, the answers would likely be the same and we wouldnt be any more happy with that person than we are with him. Good news tonight this nurse, her condition has been upgraded to good. Oh good. So thats some progress. Good to see you. There are late developments on an attack in saudi arabia that left one american dead and another injured. What weve learned about the suspect. Ve learned about the and president obama today made an eyeopening admission about our fight against isis. 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