01/12/2015 01:54 pm
Recently a representative for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was quoted as saying that what made the Ebola scare so frightening was how the CDC communicated the risk to the public.
A Florida lawyer who flew on the plane a day after Ebola patient Amber Vinson asked CDC for precautionary advice. The CDC employee told him, “I don’t have an answer.” It appeared that each time the director made a statement to reassure the public, bad news followed, discrediting his expertise and eroding the public trust.