FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, October 5, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-10-05

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, October 5, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 376–377 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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It is interesting that with the 24 hour News Cycle has created its own
dynamic. Today (Sunday) the national news was totally dominated by Ebola. Now the
questions center around whether we should do entry screening as passengers get off the
plane from West Africa even though there is exit screening at the west African airports
with temperature taking and questionnaires. DHS and some Congressmen want
temperature taking at the entry level also, which would only cut the window of
vulnerability down by hours that the person is on the plane. Yet, there will be a meeting
at the White House today to discuss entry screening. Frieden is against it, but he is going
to lose the argument. Leslie Dach and Sylvia asked me yesterday what I thought about
it. I told them that it would be for PR reasons only since it really substantively makes no
difference.
I went on the Sunday Shows today with FOX News with Chris Wallace and face the
Nation. Tom Frieden did This Week and Meet the press and State of the Union.
Questions were related to Rand Paul and Bobby Jindal saying that we should shut down
flights from West Africa. I totally disagreed. Also, there was concern on Rand Paul’s
part that our 3000 to 4000 troops that we are sending to West Africa will get infected and

bring Ebola back to the USA. Ridiculous. I got many congratulatory e-mails from
people telling me how well I did on the Sunday Shows. In the evening, I did CNN.