There was the voice of Dr. Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the telephone Thursday night, at the news conference that Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio and others were holding now that Ebola had come to New York City.
“It is very important that people understand how Ebola is spread and what the risk is,” Frieden said, but then that is something he has been saying all along.
This wasn’t about the state of preparedness at Bellevue Hospital now that Dr. Craig Spencer has been admitted there and officially diagnosed with Ebola. It is quite clear that the city was ready and the state was ready. It’s just as clear that there is no reason for panic.
That’s what he and Dr Goodman of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital told Dallasites last month. But as it turned out, they weren’t.