Ebola, news and discussion

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Originally Posted by Kelt

A surprise to me or maybe I'm misunderstanding... I though all hospitals in the US would have at minimum PPE and a negative pressure room. Is that not true?

Originally Posted by *Anya*

2nd health care worker tests positive for Ebola at Dallas hospital
By Holly Yan, CNN
updated 6:52 AM EDT, Wed October 15, 2014

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An official close to the situation says that in hindsight, Duncan should have been transferred immediately to either Emory University Hospital in Atlanta or Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Those hospitals are among only four in the country that have biocontainment units and have been preparing for years to treat a highly infectious disease like Ebola.

There's clearly some discrepancy in the amount and quality of PPE and other precautions that most hospitals have available to them, and that a few specialized hospitals have. From several comments, it also appears that the flu is more communicable and deadlier than Ebola; so, if it has been important all along to have better precautions for the flu, why don't all U.S. hospitals already have them? Something is just not adding up here, and that's what has me concerned the most. I don't want to go down the path of paranoia, but I feel like something is being withheld from us about the nature and severity of Ebola.