--- title: President Barack Obama Makes Ebola Statement at White House description: The president speaks from the White House on his administration's response to the Ebola crisis canonical: https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T18:58:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:03:57.605Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Barack Obama Makes Ebola Statement at White House og:description: The president speaks from the White House on his administration's response to the Ebola crisis og:url: https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Barack Obama Makes Ebola Statement at White House twitter:description: The president speaks from the White House on his administration's response to the Ebola crisis twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # LIVE: President Obama Makes White House Statement on Ebola by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 28, 2014 6:58 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 28, 2014 6:58 PM UTC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/"},"headline":"LIVE: President Obama Makes White House Statement on Ebola","datePublished":"2014-10-28T18:58:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:03:57.605Z","description":"The president addresses the nation on his administration's response to the Ebola crisis","url":"https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3544302/live-president-obama-makes-white-house-statement-on-ebola/","name":"LIVE: President Obama Makes White House Statement on Ebola"}}]}] ```