I listened to it last night on the radio at practice. Good stuff. Thanks for linking that.
There are a few decent, informative threads going on in the political forum (if you can sift through the all hateful, partisan bs). One of the things I read a few days ago I posted in there. It explains how Nigeria, which neighbors Liberia, successfully contained Ebola over the summer. Their outbreak was 22 people infected and 900 people quarantined. Their sex worker industry did suffer quite a bit but there are other articles on that. Here is the post with the link to the CDC report and the report copy and pasted in full on how Nigeria contained Ebola (they are skiddish over there about clicking links):
http://www.eccie.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=136
If Nigeria can contain Ebola, I'm sure the US can too. Their response was much more drastic than ours in regards to quarantines, only treating Ebola patients at specialized care centers and travel restrictions.
I'm glad they moved the third patient to Atlanta. Nothing against Dallas hospitals, but the strategy of only treating Ebola patients with ebola specialists at ebola facilities is the best idea. It seems ebola is EXTREMELY contagious in the last few days but the problem comes from how to dispose of the body fluids expressed from the patient at that time. The disposal and clean up of those fluids requires expert knowledge of Ebola which the staff at TPH was not supplied with 24/7. I'm concerned for the other patients those nurses were treating during the shifts they care for Duncan. Time will tell. At least they have a CDC site manager at the isolation room at TPH now. That is a good start.
I wouldn't be so quick to lay blame on anyone entity in particular. This has been a learning experience for everyone and thank god it isn't an uncontrollable infection. It is easily contained as Nigeria has demonstrated.
Consider it a good practice run for when there is a more serious threat. Its good to talk about it bc it prepares us for staying calm should we ever need to be on high alert in the future.