After a second health care worker was diagnosed with Ebola, President Obama cancelled a campaign trip to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss the country’s response to the deadly disease. The White House released video the president emphatically declaring that Ebola “is not airborne.”

Here’s what we know about Ebola: That it is not like the flu,” he said. “It is not airborne. The only way that a person can contract Ebola is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is showing symptoms. In other words, if they don’t have symptoms, they’re not contagious.”

During the meeting, he also said, “I want to use myself as an example just so that people have a sense of the science here. I shook hands with, hugged, and kissed not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses at Emory [University Hospital, where Ebola patients are treated] because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients. They followed the protocols, they knew what they were doing, and I felt perfectly safe doing so. And so this is not a situation in which, like a flu, the risks of a rapid spread of the disease are imminent. If we do these protocols properly, if we follow the steps, if we get the information out, then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreaks in this country are very, very low.”

Obama did admit, “We’ve all learned over the last several weeks is that folks here in this country, and a lot of non-specialized hospitals and clinics, don’t have that much experience dealing with these issues. And so we’re going to have to push out this information as aggressively as possible, and that’s the instructions that I’ve provided to my team.” Rapid response teams will be sent within 24 hours to where new cases of Ebola are diagnosed.

Here are the White House’s facts on Ebola—heck, even Shepard Smith knows there’s too much Ebola panic.