Rep. Schakowsky: Frieden and Fauci Are the ‘Best Public Health’ Leaders in the World

“Well, I do think that the leaders Tom Frieden and Andrew Fauci are among the best public health - and epidemiologists in the world and they do feel confident and I feel confident as well that we’re not going to have an outbreak.

The crisis is in West Africa. And I think Sam Stein said it pretty well. We need to address the crisis there. And Doctors Without Borders have said already reduced flights have reduced the relief efforts that they are doing there.

So I understand what Joe has said that he hasn’t had a really good explanation but I want to tell you that most of the public health officials, I haven’t heard one that has said that actually we ought to put a quarantine around three countries in Africa and not allow them to come here. By the way, we are doing -- they are doing screening in those countries before people get on a plane. And then airports like Chicago -- we just initiated a screening program -- five airports are now doing that.”