Ebola drugs, vaccines advance; US frets
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Ebola continued to dominate Washington and consumed much of the US conversation on 16 October as President Barack Obama suggested he may appoint a "czar" to oversee the situation and as top health and science leaders were hauled in front of Congress to explain why the nation appears so poorly prepared to handle the virus and what steps are being taken to get on track.