LA TIMES
Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is appearing before a House panel Thursday morning to meet congressional accusers who are prepared to use the public health official’s own words about Ebola against him. Here are some of the quotations that could come back to haunt Frieden during a politically charged grilling.
1) When Thomas Eric Duncan was first announced as having Ebola, Frieden took to airways to soothe an anxious public.
“I have no doubt that we’ll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.,” Frieden said at news conference on Sept. 30. “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation, or this case, of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country.”