text_1: "The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread"" of the virus."
text_2: "The website InfoWars claimed that the State Department ""has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola,"" demonstrating that ""the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread of a virus that has already claimed an unprecedented number of lives."" The federal government agency in question is USAID, but that’s something of a technicality. A USAID official told us that the suits are one use only, so 160,000 suits aren’t actually an astronomical amount. In fact, USAID has already delivered 100,000 suits to the Ebola-infected regions of Africa. Their new bid, while an expansion of their efforts, is in line with what USAID has done so far, and doesn’t demonstrate that the federal government is anticipating any sort of ""rapid spread."""