DOOLEY Observed: Obama gives Ebola survivor Nina Pham a bear hug at the White House

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Obama gives Ebola survivor Nina Pham a bear hug at the White House

"Five times, you're sure, all five OK, .....I'm still gonna hold my breath, take the picture fast, OK, NOW!"

A bear hug is worth a thousand words? President Barack Obama embraced Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office on Friday, shortly after the 26-year-old Dallas nurse was discharged from the National Institutes of Health.

The White House photo op came as the Obama administration struggled to reassure jittery Americans that they should trust medical and scientific authorities and that the deadly disease does not threaten them.

In a show of faith in the nation’s elite doctors and scientists, the White House did not subject Pham to any additional screening before her face-to-face meeting with the president.

“Ms. Pham was tested five different times to confirm that she no longer had the virus,” press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters. “So all the necessary testing that allowed her to safely return home with a clean bill of health is the same guidance that she has gotten in terms of meeting the president.”