Several Repubs ran on flight bans from Ebola-infected countries in 2014, despite warnings from CDC and every other public health group that such a ban would actually increase the death count. 1/?
Christie and Cuomo were the worst proponents of quarantines for workers who returned home. Christine continued to insist that Kaci Hickox was sick into his failed 2016 prez bid (she wasn’t, and he never laid eyes on her) 2/?
Only one Dem — Mark Pryor — attacked his Repub opponent (Tom Cotton) for voting to cut CDC funding. We know how that race turned out for Pryor. 3/?
Trump himself was obsessed with Ebola. He tweeted about it ~100 times in 3 months, talked about it constantly on Fox News. He even advocated leaving infected Americans behind in West Africa. thehill.com/homenews/state… 4/?
Fortunately, the last admin wasn’t about to leave them behind. Today, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol are alive because their government went and got them and saved them. thehill.com/homenews/state… 5/?
The Obama admin conducted an after-action report to assess when Ebola entered the American consciousness. Their conclusion: Trump’s tweets on the day Brantly was flying back to the US. There’s a tweet for everything. 6/6 ### thehill.com/homenews/state…
Oh hey by the way I wrote a book about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and you should buy it. And go to my website to watch @RonaldKlain talk about what it was like to be the Ebola czar: epidemicbook.com
