US Ebola Czar - Messaging or Frank Truth?

[sharon sanders]

Re: US Ebola Czar - Messaging or Frank Truth?

She was attorney general. He is an attorney. He has a license and education in the field in which he was advising Ms. Reno. So he was probably a perfect choice to help repair her office and Washington career.

My criticism of Mr. Klain is not personal. I am sure he is a great husband, father, attorney, financial, communication, corporate guy. He just has no experience in any related field to infection control, virology, immunology, preparedness, etc.

 

[Emily]

Re: US Ebola Czar - Messaging or Frank Truth?

He just has no experience in any related field to infection control, virology, immunology, preparedness, etc.

We have somehow been let down by those with the background of the first 3. Reno was qualified in law and look how that turned out - very badly until Klain was installed. No more grotesque human rights violations after that.

I'd like someone with some education in biology so it would be easier to get up to speed, or an actual background in bio-safety, but at least Klain might deal well with the legal issues of quarantines.

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: US Ebola Czar - Messaging or Frank Truth?

White House?s Ebola Liaison Arrives in Dallas

Oct 19, 2014 8:15pm

WASHINGTON ? The White House has quietly dispatched Adrian Saenz, deputy director of intergovernmental affairs, to be the administration?s eyes and ears on the ground in Dallas, coordinating Ebola efforts with state and local officials.
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Saenz was named to the role on Friday and will report directly to newly-named Ebola ?czar? Ron Klain, who doesn?t officially start his new role until later this week.
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zhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/10/white-houses-ebola-liaison-arrives-in-dallas/

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Adrian Saenz

Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs

Adrian Saenz serves as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs managing the Obama Administration?s relationships with state elected officials.

Before joining the White House, Adrian served as the Senior Advisor for Immigration Reform at Organizing for Action. Prior to that, he was the National Latino Vote Director on the Obama-Biden 2012 campaign, where he oversaw the implementation of a program to engage and turnout Latino voters across the country. Following the election, Adrian joined the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee as the Director of Constituency Engagement. He has also worked on numerous electoral campaigns and as the National Field Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/iga/about-iga

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: US Ebola Czar - Messaging or Frank Truth?

So long, Ebola Czar. Ron Klain is heading back to the private sector.

by Tory Newmyer

December 6, 2014, 7:00 AM EST

With the Ebola crisis seemingly in hand, Ron Klain, the veteran political operative the White House plucked from a venture capital gig to coordinate the government?s response, is planning a late-winter return to the private sector.
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Klain?s role as the White House?s ?Ebola czar? was always meant to be temporary. He took a leave of absence from Revolution in late October to join the administration as a special government employee ? a technical designation for short-termers that stipulates they?ll stay on the job no longer than 130 days.
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Klain still has plenty to do. At the moment, his work is focused on securing Congressional support for Obama?s $6.2 billion request to fund a range of emergency response measures, even though any sense of emergency has palpably drained away...
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http://fortune.com/2014/12/06/so-long-ebola-czar/

 

[Pathfinder]

Ebola czar: Critics had 'misperception of what was needed'

By David McCabe - 01/19/15 12:05 PM EST

The Obama administration’s “Ebola czar” said in an interview published Monday that the criticism of his lack of a healthcare background might have been rooted in a “misperception of what was needed.”

“I’ve been around public life long enough to know that you’re going to take some licks if you’re in the public spotlight,” Ron Klain, the White House’s Ebola response coordinator, said about the criticism in an interview with Politico Magazine. “I think people maybe had a misperception of what was needed.”

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare...hat-was-needed

 

[Pathfinder]

ByREBECCA KAPLANCBS NEWSJanuary 29, 2015, 2:18 PM

Ebola czar Ron Klain to depart February 15

Ron Klain, the Obama administration's point man in the fight against the Ebola virus, will leave the administration on February just shy of three months after he stepped in to coordinate the government's response to the crisis at home and abroad.

A former chief of staff for Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore, Klain had left the administration and was serving as president of president of Case Holdings and general counsel at Revolution LLC, a technology-oriented venture capital firm, when the Ebola epidemic hit. He was brought in largely because of his management credentials and experience in the federal government after the second case of the virus was confirmed on U.S. soil...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-czar-ron-klain-to-depart-february-15/

 

[Pathfinder]

Ebola czar ? "This thing isn't over yet." And the next pandemic could be even worse.

by Julia Belluz on March 3, 2015
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Why we're not ready for the next pandemic

Julia Belluz: You did not come from a medical background when you were suddenly at the helm of the White House?s response to this global epidemic. As a health outsider, what did you find most surprising?

Ron Klain: The most surprising and disappointing thing is the lack of global infrastructure to deal with this sort of thing. People have some sense, maybe from the movies, that in the event you have an outbreak there are some pre-existing global disease fighters that drop in with parachutes and helicopters and go on the attack. And there just isn?t. The WHO [World Health Organization] clearly admitted they missed the boat on this. President Obama had to make the hard and bold decision to get the military into Liberia to build infrastructure, do training, build Ebola treatment units. Our allies ? the UK in Sierra Leone and France in Guinea ? had to help. That?s not really a scalable or sustainable strategy for dealing with epidemics like this in the future. It can?t be our responsibility in the US to do this every time. What if the next outbreak like this is in Pakistan or in Indonesia, where sending in the 101st airborne is not an option?

Julia Belluz: Having seen that we are ill-prepared to cope with pandemics, what most worries you about the future outbreaks we will surely have?

Ron Klain: As horrible as Ebola was ? and still is ? you can imagine the next scenario being much worse. These three countries [Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea] are relatively small in population. The largest city in any of the three is Conakry with a population of about 1 million. If you had this scenario in one of the world?s largest cities, with 20 or 30 million people, it would be very different. Ebola is also very hard to transmit. It?s not airborne. You can imagine an epidemic of a highly deadly flu where the disease would be transmitted much more quickly.

The next epidemic could break out in a country where US troops wouldn?t be welcome. Liberia is a country that we have a great relationship with ? our troops were welcomed as heroes in Liberia. But what if the next outbreak like this is in Pakistan or in Indonesia ? or pick any other country ? where sending in the 101st airborne is not an option? We need a global squad, an international unit, that can do what the US and the British military did in this case. So it?s hard to know what the next threat like this we will face could be, but it could be in a place where it?s much harder to fight the disease, with a higher rapidity of transmission, and a much lower ability to detect and isolate it.
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Full text:
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8134789/ebola-czar-ron-klain