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(dropped the ball with on the first ER visit) and treat Ebola safely (infected health care worker) is not working well. Clearly, HCWs have not really been properly trained and although they believe that they are following protocol, they are not. The outbreak still rages in West Africa. Today (Oct. 13) a second nurse who had taken care of had a couple of days ago flown home to Cleveland and had not had any sxs or fever. While is Cleveland, she developed a temperature of 99.3 F. The CDC cut-off is 101 F. The nurse (Amber Vinson) called the CDC and asked if she could fly home and the CDC person cleared her to fly. When she got to Dallas, it was clear that she was febrile and that theoretically, she had exposed the passengers on the flight from Cleveland back to Dallas. Major, major lapse in judgment on the part of CDC in letting her fly since she did not fulfill the precise definition of febrile. Now a massive contact tracing of the passengers is taking place with many of them already having taken connecting flights. This is causing a major crisis of confidence in the CDC and specifically for Tom Frieden. The fact that the CDC gave her permission to fly back to Dallas was made public on Oct. 15 Sylvia called me on my cell after a TV show and asked me to help her prepare over the phone for her media interviews the next day. She also tasked me to write 2 memos for her to the POTUS to explain why PCR screening at airports is not a good idea (Bill Gates suggested this to the POTUS) and also the explain to the POTUS what we are doing with therapies (a Senator told him that HHS is not doing enough on therapies. Press → CNN New Day; WTOP radio; Fox and Friends; NBC News; MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; CBS Evening News; MSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews; CNN with Wolf Blitzer; FOX News with Megyn Kelly; Good Morning America with Robin Roberts. Oct. 14, 2014 - USG criticism high. Bill O'Reilly calling for resignation of Tom Frieden. I meet by phone with the New York Times Editorial Board. Also, I do NBC Nightly News, Fox News with Greta Van Susteren and MSNBC with Rachel Maddow. After I got off the air, Rachel tells her audience how proud she was of herself to have gotten me on her show since I was such an icon in medicine and public health. Oct. 14 -21, 2014 - From October 14 through October 21, the situation was so intense that I do not have time to document historical notes on a day by day basis. I am only doing this retrospectively now and will give dates as I recall. However over this period of time in light of the crisis of confidence against CDC and Tom Frieden related to a number of issues culminated by the fact that was allowed to fly back from Cleveland to Dallas, this was clear that Tom Frieden was in significant trouble over several days Sec. Burwell would call me usually in the late evening and nighttime asking for my advice about what we should do the CDC. At one point, I believe on October 14 or 15, she called me at night as I was in my car driving home. I parked the car in front of my house and continued to speak with her. Approximately 9 o'clock at night. She asked me what I thought about the possibility of removing Frieden from the job and wanted my