The level of incompetence in this whole thing has been mind boggling.
Duncan, patient #1 would never have been allowed in the US if there had been a travel ban in place.
He hows up at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital with a fever and vomiting, was given some meds, and sent home.
What the CDC or any other health authorities said yet is how did 2 nurses wearing full protective gear come down with the virus?
And the second nurse was told by the CDC she was ok to fly with a low grade fever the day before she was diagnosed.

I can see it now.
Nurse: "I'm a nurse at Dallas Presbyterian that treated the Ebola patient who recently died. I have a low grade fever of 99.5. I have a flight from Cleveland to Dallas. Am I ok to fly?"
CDC: "Well, since your fever isn't 100.4, you should be fine to fly".
So the CDC has to contact everyone on that flight. And now the CDC is saying she might have been contagious 5 days before for her 1st flight from Dallas to Cleveland, so they are having to try to track down and contact everyone on the 1st flight. And Frontier is contacting the passengers who flew on later flights on the Cleveland to Dallas plane (about 800). And that nurse now has numerous friends & family who are being closely monitored, with 7 under strict quarantine. Multiple schools have been shut and you have a 2nd major city gripped by Ebola fear..
And now the CDC is belatedly saying anyone who treated Duncan is travel restricted...
And that dufus head of the CDC when asked direct pointed questions by members of Congress just obfuscates and gives canned answers, especially when asked about a travel ban.