PETERSEN, LYLE
Video
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Date
October 17, 2016, and July 9, 2018
Description
Interview 1: Dr. Lyle R. Petersen, director of CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases and incident manager for CDC's Zika response, discusses his work responding to the Ebola cases in Dallas, Texas, in the fall of 2014. Dr. Petersen served as head of the Ebola response there.
Interview 2: Dr. Lyle R. Petersen, director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continues to describe his experience leading CDC's 2014 Ebola response in Dallas, Texas. He goes on to describe his role interfacing with "Ebola czar" Ron Klain and the White House. He then compares CDC's Ebola response to its Zika response, which he led for a long period.