(CNN) -- This week Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stepped up to the microphone and took responsibility for the worst mistake in Dallas' Ebola-stricken hospital: its utter lack of preparedness. After insisting for months that any U.S. hospital could handle an Ebola case by following CDC guidelines, Frieden now wishes he had provided Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with the robust CDC clinical support team it desperately needed to care for Thomas Eric Duncan -- the first of three people to be diagnosed with Ebola on American soil. What now? The federal government's last major health care scandal -- at the Department of Veterans Affairs -- offers a road map out of this mess, and it begins with finding new leadership for the CDC. The times call for a person with unique talents and vision that Frieden lacks.
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Ford Vox: CDC's Thomas Frieden took responsibility for lack of Ebola preparedness
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Frieden has stellar resume but has seemed out of touch with clinical realities in crisis, he says
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Vox says he's lagged on treatment, protective garb, waste disposal, effort in Africa
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Vox: Frieden's a good man but lacks vision, leadership for this crisis
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