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October 27, 2014
If we couldn’t get expertise or honesty from the authorities, could they at least demonstrate common sense?
Apparently not; some of the most simple and seemingly obvious approaches, such as keeping the number of hospital workers interacting with Duncan to the minimum necessary, were never implemented.Nor did the hospital or the CDC appear to have considered something as obvious as sending Duncan to a facility where the personnel were already experienced in dealing with Ebola, as had happened with previous American Ebola patients who had been flown back from Africa for treatment. Instead, the CDC apparently thought it would be a fine idea to let an inexperienced local hospital get on-the-job training with the very first Ebola patient to be diagnosed here: Initially the CDC’s plan was to let patients be treated in place at major hospitals. The idea was that these institutions would gain experience that would be essential in the event of a larger outbreak.-- Breaching our Maginot Line: Ebola in U.S. Was Clearly Preventable
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 27, 2014 8:39 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.