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Chris Smith: “I spoke yesterday to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the lead…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
I spoke yesterday to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the lead witness at our August 7 emergency hearing during recess on Ebola, and he said that this is the worst health crisis he had ever seen.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith highlights the severity of the Ebola crisis as described by the CDC director.

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