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the CDC that hopefully would state that the clinical judgment of the monitor would decide on a day by day basis what the restrictions of the healthcare worker would be. We want to make sure that an overly strict health official would not just say no to everything that has to do with freedom of movement. In this regard, we suggested that we put down some fundamental principles and guidelines which the public health official acting as the direct monitor could use in his/her decision-making process. The president commented towards the end of the discussion that we really need to have some clarity to this and not keep chasing after things. He bemoaned that over the past 3 weeks he has spent literally most of his time on this issue of Ebola and Ebola has killed one person in the USA, at the same time that he is dealing with ISIS, Iran, Ferguson shooting, ACA, border children and just 2 days ago (Friday) a deranged high school student in Washington State killed 2 fellow students, wounded several others and then shot himself. And so the POTUS was quite frustrated in his classically "calm" way Hopefully, we can get some crisp guidelines out soon. I continued to get a lot of hate mail related to the position that I articulated on the TV shows. After the White House meeting I went on a power walk with Christine had something to eat, and am now trying to catch up on the pounds of work and hundreds of e-mails that have piled up. On another issue, Marie-Paule Kieny and WHO are up to mischief again and trying to take over, or at least greatly influence the conduct of the randomized controlled trial for Ebola vaccine that Cliff has put together. It is truly extraordinary. First they said that such a trial was unethical. Now that we have agreement on the part of many parties including the companies as well as the Ministry of Health of Liberia, the WHO wants to butt in again and be involved in the design of the trial. I will have to get Sylvia Burwell involved in trying to block this egregious interference in an area which they have no expertise. They can always play their trump card and say with self-righteousness that they are only interested in the well-being and safety of Africans. However, we all know that that is not their motivation. They have been trying to block this trial and they have not been successful. Here again they want to insert themselves now that the trial is almost on its way. Cliff and I and Peggy Hamburg will likely seek Sylvia Burwell's help in getting to Margaret Chan, Dir. Gen. of WHO, to have her tell the WHO people to back off. Oct. 27, 2014 - Furor against Governors' decision on quarantine. I am in the eye of the storm due to my 5 appearances on Sunday TV giving scientific reasons against blanket quarantine. 2 days ag, nurse returned to Newark from West Africa after taking care of Ebola patients. She got caught in the quarantine issue and was put in an old hospital tent in New Jersey and (as she says) was treated like a criminal/prisoner. Officials at airport initially thought that she had fever since they did a skin tem while she was flushed. Turned out she had no fever and ultimately tested negative. Christie looking real bad on this one. She is playing it out by suing and being very vocal that her human rights were violated. Ultimately, she was let go to drive to Maine to see her boyfriend. Cuomo now backing off a bit and leaning towards direct, active monitoring. CDC revising M and M document. Tom and I want the "direct" part of the monitoring to be