“If there is a silver lining in all the attention that
the Ebola situation has received over the last several weeks, it’s a
reminder of how important our public health systems are, and in many
ways what this has done is elevated that importance,” said Obama.
“There may come a time sometime in the future where we are dealing with an airborne disease that is much easier to catch and is deadlyand in some ways this has created a trial run
for federal, state and public health officials and health care
providers as well as the American people to understand the nature of
that and why it’s so important that we’re continually building out our
public health systems but we’re also practicing them and keeping them in
tip top shape and investing in them,” added Obama (emphasis mine).
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