President Obama is assigning 3000 military personnel to West Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak. The AP reports:
The U.S. effort will include medics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help erect the treatment facilities and specialists in logistics to assist in patient transportation.
Hopefully he remembered how to pronounce “corpsman” this time.
MORE: Obama's initiatives to combat Ebola include new Liberia command post for U.S., international relief efforts: http://t.co/YaWpXJqsAs
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2014
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— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) September 16, 2014
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How is assigning 3,000 military personnel to W. Africa going to help deal with the Ebola crisis?
— Bianca (@sistabloom) September 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/cmdeb/status/511733735322959872
US to send 3,000 troops to West Africa, stand up 17 100-bed treatment centers there to fight Ebola: http://t.co/zHQIbERghq
— John Reed (@ReedJustSec) September 16, 2014
According the AP story the military personnel will “supply medical and logistical support.”
Administration officials said Monday that the new initiatives aim to:
— Train as many as 500 health care workers a week.
— Erect 17 heath care facilities in the region of 100 beds each.
— Set up a joint command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to coordinate between U.S. and international relief efforts.
— Provide home health care kits to hundreds of thousands of households, including 50,000 that the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver to Liberia this week.
— Carry out a home- and community-based campaign to train local populations on how to handle exposed patients.
"Ebola Force" sounds like Hot Shots Part Trois MT“@guardian: Obama to announce Ebola force of US military personnel http://t.co/gPkLUvUokI”
— Andrea Caruso (@AndreaNRuth) September 16, 2014
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