Thu Oct 9, 2014 AT 7:57 AM EDT
A Dallas Sheriff’s Deputy is now hospitalized with Ebola symptoms a few days after entering the apartment of the late Thomas Eric Duncan, reports Newsmax. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports the Obama administration has started checkpoints for fever at five major U.S. airports. But one expert explains, “At the very most, all we are buying here is some reduction of anxiety.” Still, he adds, “That’s worth something because, at the moment, we have a much larger outbreak of anxiety than we have of Ebola.”