Brooklyn Borough President Hosts Town Hall on Ebola Wednesday Night

Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will hold a town hall discussion—open to all residents— on Ebola and Enterovirus D68 in the courtroom of Brooklyn Borough Hall.

According to a press release yesterday from the Borough President’s office, the event is meant to:

address local concerns about the potential local impact of Ebola or Enterovirus D68, two viruses that have caused fear nationwide in recent weeks, with at least one confirmed death related to each disease.

Panelists at the town hall, which will be moderated by Professor Mordecai Goldfeder, senior health and medical planner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, will include experts from the Brooklyn Hospital Center, Centers for Disease Control, Doctors Council SEIU, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene.

Borough President Adams and others will address the facts on Ebola and Enterovirus D68 and answer questions from the community.

The Beep’s public discussion comes on the heels of an announcement today by the Department of Homeland Security that all travelers from West Africa countries where Ebola has been documented must travel through one of five U.S. airports.

Today, New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport—one of the five designated entry points—began checking arriving traveler’s temperature and asking about possible exposure to Ebola.