Barack Obama

There will be no Ebola outbreak in the United States during the 2014 West African epidemic.

“our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.”

Said on

16 September 2014 · Remarks on the Ebola outbreak at the CDC in Atlanta

Source

Remarks by the President on the Ebola Outbreak · The White House (archives)

Should come true

by 2015

How sure they sounded

chances ... are extremely low

Categories

Health

Importance

3 of 5 · A US Ebola outbreak would have been a major national public-health event.

Outcome

Accurate

Window inferred as the 2014-2016 epidemic. The US saw only a handful of cases: one imported death in Dallas and two nurses infected caring for him, with no wider community spread, so no US outbreak occurred.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States