For those of us following this issue, I think it's important to hear from all sides, including Thomas Eric Duncan's. Obviously, he's no longer on this earth to defend himself, but in his place, his nephew, Josephus Weeks, has published an op-ed about his uncle.

One unexpected thing in the op-ed is the revelation that the story of Mr Duncan helping take his landlord's pregnant and Ebola-stricken daughter to the hospital back in Liberia is not true. It never happened. None of us can verify that, but even from the beginning, I was saying that the story--as was popularly being told--just didn't make sense in the context of his imminent flight to America to marry his fiancé and then allowing himself to be sent home from the ER the first time.

The Dallas Morning News apparently took a lot of heat for publishing that piece, and they respond here. This outbreak is about real people, not just bureaucrats, politicians, and talking heads on TV or online, so it's good to hear from people directly impacted.