Um, nope. They were taken to Emory Univ. hospital.
It’s possible that you have a fancy name for the rooms they put them in, but it was still just good ‘ol EUH with a little extra plastic sheeting and Gorilla tape. Yep. Everyone was talking about it.
Read for yourself: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/21/health/ebola-patient-release/index.html
I hope you felt safe thinking it was some place special because we sure did not. They put us at risk because they want an award.
And more grant money. Don’t overlook that aspect.
No, they were taken to the special unit described in post 13.
Your own link uses the head of that unit. “”Emory’s staff is confident that the American patients’ discharges pose “no public health threat,” said Dr. Bruce Ribner, director of Emory’s Infectious Disease Unit.””
From CNN——”The isolation unit was created 12 years ago in conjunction with experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is based down the street. It features “special air handling,” strict protocols on everything and everyone who goes in and out of a patient’s room, and other measures to ensure that any potential dangers are contained.
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Everything is thought out, right down to how visitors can interact with patients. They can be within 1 to 2 inches of each other, looking through a plate-glass window and talking through an intercom.
It’s a unique facility that’s rarely used.
Ribner said it was last activated a couple of years ago, when someone came from Angola amid a Marburg virus outbreak.
“It’s kind of like an insurance policy,” the Emory physician said. “You can complain about the fact that you didn’t collect on your ... policy or you can say — as in this case — ‘Boy, we’re lucky we’ve been supporting you all these years because now we really need you.’ And it would be really challenging to develop this on the fly.”