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Who sets the guidelines when it comes to Ebola?
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Oct 28, 2014
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Who sets the guidelines when it comes to Ebola?
The differing responses at the state and federal level have highlighted the lack of a single standard in our Ebola management.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Tom Frieden, left, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to get answers about the Ebola outbreak from top U.S. health officials. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Tom Frieden, left, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to get answers about the Ebola outbreak from top U.S. health officials. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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The differing responses at the state and federal level have highlighted the lack of a single standard in our Ebola management.

The federal Centers for Disease Control laid out new guidelines Monday for monitoring the deadly Ebola disease. They stop far short of the controversial mandatory quarantines put in place by New York and New Jersey.

The CDC and the White House have argued against such measures, saying they aren't necessary and could harm the relief effort. The differing responses at the state and federal level have highlighted the lack of a single standard in our Ebola management.

Take Two is joined by Dr. Laura Kahn, physician and research scholar with Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security and the author of the book: "Who's in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bio-terror attacks and other public health crises."