Obama calls for Ebola 'SWAT team'

President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to convene rapid-response teams to deploy to any U.S. hospital with an infected Ebola patient, according to a CNN report.

President Obama announced the plan for the "SWAT teams" at a specially convened Cabinet meeting to address Ebola.

"As soon as someone is diagnosed with Ebola, we want a rapid response team, a SWAT team, essentially, from the CDC to be on the ground as quickly as possible, hopefully within 24 hours, so they are taking the local hospital step-by-step through exactly what needs to be done," President Obama said, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

These rapid response teams are an effort to create a more aggressive response to Ebola infections, especially following the news of a second Dallas healthcare worker who has become infected with the virus.

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