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Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
If the best equipped place in the world to treat this disease is here, then why shouldn't we treat others?
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In an epidemic/pandemic situation, your FIRST concern is to CONTAIN the epidemic, so that a few dozen cases DOESN'T become a few hundred, so that a small town sick DOESN'T make a large city sick, so that a few hundred cases doesn't become a few thousand, so a few thousand cases doesn't become MILLIONS of cases.
We STILL don't actually know how those two (2) nurses in Dallas got infected.
If you are going to import patients, by transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean, you have to be sure you can transport them SAFELY for ALL people involved.
That means the ground crews at both ends. That means the aircrews. That means the ground transport people. That means the general public at both ends.
Probably the way to do it, IF the country you are trying to treat has a seaport, is to take a cruise ship and refit it as a floating hospital. Then you anchor it WELL OUT TO SEA, deliver patients on small boats, and move medical staff on flying boats (there are still more than a few Catalinas left over from WW2).
If you want to be really clever about it, build the biggest shallow water saturation diving rig ever seen, akin to the Mars mission simulation closed habitat the Russians built some years ago, and run that as a Level 4 biocontainment facility. (Ebola *IS* a Level 4 bioagent.)
