Days before the World Health Organization declared West Africa’s 2014 Ebola outbreak an international public health crisis, President Trump, as a private citizen, tweeted: “The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!”
During the Aspen (Colo.) Ideas Festival on Sunday, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg read the tweet to Dr. Price and asked the HHS secretary if he would advise the president to permit infected health workers to return to the U.S.
Dr. Price disagreed with President Trump’s 2014 comments and said letting the workers return is not only our country’s “responsibility,” but a “moral action that must be taken.”
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