On Ebola: “On Sunday, NIH Director Anthony Fauci called the quarantine “draconian” and unnecessary”.

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WikiLeaks reports from Secret Congressional hearings held in 2014 report that NIH Director Antony Fauci called an ebola quarantine “draconian”. Ebola which is considered one of the most virulent and deadly viruses was a world wide concern under the Obama administration in 2014. Fauci’s comments in 2014 were a follow-up to the James Clapper 2013 Threat Assessment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where the first indicator of a future Covid pandemic was realized.

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On Sunday, NIH Director Anthony Fauci called the quarantine “draconian” and unnecessary. Governors Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said that the federal response wasn’t doing enough after a doctor in New York City came down with the virus last week. </p><br><p> <b><i>Last week, prominent epidemiologists thought the White House was close to calling for a national quarantine.</i></b> However, Fauci’s comments on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” indicates the White House believes the solution to staunching the spread of Ebola starts in Africa. <b><i>More from NBC News,</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_vXA87d8 style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414″ target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Illinois has also placed impacted medical workers under quarantine; Virginia and Maryland have not. More from the Washington Post</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_vrAf33b style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414″ target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Late Sunday, Cuomo and Christie both eased their quarantine requirements. </i></b>Both states are now closer in line “with federal protocols and marking a significant break with the way the policy has been carried out in New Jersey.”<b><i> The New York Times’ Marc Santora and Michael Shear,</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_v_Aa436 style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414” target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Kaci Hickox, a 33-year-old nurse with Doctors Without Borders who has twice tested negative for Ebola, wrote a first-person account in The Dallas Morning News, saying her current predicament “is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me.”</i></b> She said she was hiring lawyers to challenge her quarantine, and also claimed she was being held in a cold tent with only scrubs to keep warm. <b><i>More</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_wTA5398 style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414” target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Doctors Without Borders is “very concerned about the conditions and uncertainty [Hilcox] is facing and is attempting to obtain information from hospital officials.” More</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_wnA7bc6 style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414″ target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Via Mashable, photos of the tent where Hilcox is quarantined are</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_w7A788b style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414″ target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>The U.S. response to the virus in Africa is taking shape.</i></b> U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power is in Africa visiting Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. From the BBC: “The Pentagon announced that a new commander, Maj. Gen Gary Volesky, had taken over the U.S. military mission to fight Ebola in West Africa. It said that troops from the U.S. 101st Division who arrived in Liberia 38 days ago had established two new laboratories and that a 25-bed hospital should be operational in the capital Monrovia by November.” <b><i>More</i></b><a href=”http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5256a08dc16bcfa46f76bda51xnzo.n0w/VE43TcPoKcZoc_xPA13f8 style=”font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414″ target=”blank”><b><i> </i></b><b><i>here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b> </p><br><p> <b><i>Writing for The Hindu in India, Nissim Mannathukkaren claims that global inequality is at the heart of the Ebola tragedy and criticizes the West — but also developing nations like China, India and Brazil, for their disproportionate focus on protecting themselves — rather than helping in Africa. More</i></b><a