--- title: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola description: The briefing comes days after the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States canonical: https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-03T20:26:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:35:02.280Z article:section: Health og:title: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola og:description: The briefing comes days after the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States og:url: https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492a669f6decd35/6986a710cd804d02dbccd282/screen-shot-2014-10-03-at-4-56-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-03 at 4.56.11 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola twitter:description: The briefing comes days after the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492a669f6decd35/6986a710cd804d02dbccd282/screen-shot-2014-10-03-at-4-56-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # LIVE: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 3, 2014 8:26 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 3, 2014 8:26 PM CUT Now that the first case of [Ebola in the United States](http://time.com/3450540/ebola-outbreak-us-cdc/ "undefined") has been confirmed and 50 others are currently [being monitored](http://time.com/3462004/ebola-us-50-monitored/ "undefined") for the disease in the country, White House officials are addressing the U.S. response to the outbreak. Homeland Security advisor Lisa Monaco and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, among others, are expected to speak. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/"},"headline":"LIVE: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola","datePublished":"2014-10-03T20:26:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:35:02.280Z","description":"The briefing comes days after the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States","url":"https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","White House","Obama","ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492a669f6decd35/6986a710cd804d02dbccd282/screen-shot-2014-10-03-at-4-56-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492a669f6decd35/6986a710cd804d02dbccd282/screen-shot-2014-10-03-at-4-56-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-10-03 at 4.56.11 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3462120/obama-administration-ebola/","name":"LIVE: White House Addresses Spread of Ebola"}}]}] ```