The spirit of Janet Napolitano lives on in Washington:
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in the United States was working.
“The system worked,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.”
On Sunday, officials in Texas announced that a second person in Dallas had tested positive for the deadly virus — a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week.
“She was on voluntary self-monitoring,” he said about the latest victim. “She found she got infected, and she immediately did what she was supposed to have done.”
“So even in this troublesome situation, the system is working,” Fauci said.
Napolitano famously boasted that “the system worked” when a Nigerian bomber got onto a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas 2009.