The Partisan Divide on Ebola Preparedness
Posted on AllSides October 18th, 2014
From The Left
After a second case of Ebola was discovered among the staff of a Dallas hospital that treated an infected patient, public concerns are likely to increase about whether the United States health care system can properly respond to an outbreak.
Data from surveys suggest, however, that those views — like so many others — are being shaped by people’s partisan affilations as much as by news about the outbreak itself.
According to a new ABC News/Washington Post survey, only 54 percent of Republicans are confident in the federal government’s ability...
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