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Ebola czar concludes his successful rule
[image: Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden (L) and Ebola
response co-ordinator Ron Klain in a Nov. 4meeting with President Obama in
the White House. (Photo: Mandel Ngan AFP/Getty Images)]

Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden (L) and Ebola response
co-ordinator Ron Klain in a Nov. 4 meeting with President Obama in the
White House. (Photo: Mandel Ngan AFP/Getty Images)

Back in October, when President Obama tapped Ron Klain to coordinate
the U.S. response to the frightening Ebola outbreak, many observers — you
know who you are — were outraged that the White House had picked a lawyer
and former chief of staff to Vice President Biden for the job — as opposed
to a doctor or nationally known figure.

Obama noted as much in his farewell statement: “There was more than a
little skepticism from some corners at the selection of Ron to fulfill this
function.” He called it “background noise.”

As this paper recently reported
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-czar-ron-klain-to-leave-feb-15-after-leading-us-response-to-outbreak/2015/01/29/aa9c503c-a0d7-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html>,
Klain has gotten high marks from public-health experts and others for
his oversight of the complex effort to battle the disease. As he leaves
his office Thursday, only two people died of the disease in this country —
and both of them had contracted Ebola overseas.

So Klain could be considered the most effective czar since the end of the
Romanov era in Russia.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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