Chris Hayes gets called on his Ebola 'lie'

Greg P. | 9:15 AM on October 29, 2014

Last night, Chris Hayes interviewed the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders Sophie Delaunay to talk about Gov. Chris Christie and the quarantine of Ebola health worker Kaci Hickox.

And after the segment, Hayes tweeted out this summary of his chat with Delaunay:

So @MSF has had 3300 staff rotate through W Africa caring for Ebola patients & a total of…3 have gotten the disease thru their work.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 29, 2014

Tweeters, however, quickly challenged the accuracy of what Hayes had just typed:

@chrislhayes @MelissaTweets @MSF Yes, let's pretend all 3,300 staff came into direct contact with Ebola patients, shall we?

— Brian Cates //Flynn & Breitbart's Army! (@drawandstrike) October 29, 2014

Eighteen Doctors w/o Borders have contracted Ebola. Ten are dead. Higher than avg. citizen in hot zone. Reason for your lie? @chrislhayes

— Terry (@IrishTea1) October 29, 2014

@chrislhayes @MSF @MelissaTweets No – 24 contracted ebola, sadly, 13 have died. http://t.co/Bg0qTLeTUu

— Mark Hennessey (@markinct) October 29, 2014

So, who is correct? Let’s go to the Doctors Without Borders website and see what they have to say:

At present, there are more than 3,200 MSF staff working on Ebola in West Africa. The total number of people who have worked in Ebola projects since MSF began its intervention last March is significantly higher. To date, 24 MSF staff have contracted Ebola and 13 have died. Ten have survived, and one, our colleague now in New York, is in treatment. Twenty-one of the 24 have been national staff, people who live in the country in which they were working (national staff make up the vast majority of MSF staff around the world). Three were international staff, or “expats.”Hayes then replied: