The response to Ebola in west Africa is a day late and a dollar short, says emergency room doctor and CDC critic Dr. Gil Mobley, and the Obama administration should be focusing its resources on containment.
Mobley appeared Tuesday on
Newsmax TV's "America’s Forum."
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"The truth of the matter is, and if [newly appointed Ebola czar]
Ron Klain has any integrity he will say the truth, and the truth is, we have lost the battle in Sierra Leone, New Guinea and in Liberia," Mobley said. "If we don't slow this down, it's going to rifle though the community and everyone in these countries are going to get it. The mortality rate is climbing up by 70 percent."
The
World Health Organization has predicted that by December there may be as many 10,000 new Ebola cases per week in west Africa.
New protocols issued by the CDC are seven months too late, Mobley charged.
"The White House says they've been planning on this for seven months," he said. "You'd think they would've figured out what to do with the 55-gallon containers of hazardous waste sitting outside Emory University. Nurses were putting tape around their neck two weeks ago to stop the containment. It's too little too late, just like our response to west Africa."
Ditto for the lack of a travel ban, he said.
If the Obama administration is not going to issue a travel ban, the U.S. government must quarantine the 150 people coming into the country from west Africa each day, he said.
"Use the military for that, instead of dropping them in a middle of a burning fire."
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Mobley would like to see visas banned, and if that doesn't happen, the mandatory tracking of all people coming from west Africa. Nigeria, he said, was able to contain Ebola outside its borders.
"It's time to let the Mother Theresas of mercy and compassion fight that battle inside west Africa, pull the military out and contain it," Mobley said. "You don't drop firefighters in the middle of a fire, you contain it from the outside. That's what our military needs to be doing."
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