All right, we have an Ebola "czar" now. Realistically, what can we expect from him, and from the U.S. response to the outbreak? So far, each new Ebola development in the United States -- from the first two American aid workers flown here for treatment, to the infection of two Dallas nurses -- has set off its a new round of panic. And there were real shortcomings in Dallas -- substantive problems that allowed the disease to spread when it shouldn't have. The response to domestic Ebola cases needs to get a whole lot better, and that was part of the White House's rationale for tapping Democratic lawyer Ron Klain to coordinate the effort. Naming an Ebola "czar" was also, in part, a...
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