Had the state used its public health powers more robustly, health care workers who treated Duncan might not have been circulating in public, and much of the ensuing panic could have been stilled.

Source: Control Eluded State Leaders in Ebola Crisis | The Texas Tribune

I’m glad to hear reports that the first nurse is now testing negative and that this didn’t get out of hand. Public health issues like this are fully within the role of government. It saddens me that Texas loves to claim independence until something isn’t right, then we blame it on it on Federal inaction.