Oh I don’t mean as a disease. The plague rages on, alas. I mean as a driver of media hysteria, political finger-pointing, and perpetual White House panic, it may be that we’ve seen the worst of Ebola here in the U.S. The incubation period is winding down. And, without new negative developments, I wouldn’t be surprised if the topic doesn’t even appear on the Sunday shows next weekend — such is the the half-life of our collective attention span.

Of course, “no new negative developments” is a very big caveat. If we do see another case of Ebola brought here from abroad, I very much doubt the White House could hold the line against a travel ban. We saw what happened when a single case is imported to American soil. If more cases somehow make it past Ron Klain — hard to imagine, I know — all bets are off.

We should all hope Ebola disappears as a political crisis because it disappears as a medical crisis, both here and abroad.

But, once again, the White House’s fortunes depend entirely on outside events on which it has only limited influence (Ron Klain’s epidemiological skills notwithstanding).