Why even bring them here in the first place? Zero experience dealing with Ebola at Emory, much experience at several well equipped hospitals in Africa.
Totally irresponsible on the part of State Dept and CDC.
With school starting in Ga in 3 days, a perfect opportunity to see if it really is controllable.
See post 143.
All I am trying to get through to you is that you and others are hyperventilating over this.
This disease is no worse and in my opinion much less dangerous to us in the US then diseases that hospital deals with every week.
Legit question.
According to my daughter, Emory is only 1 of 4 facilities in the states equipped to deal with an infection of this magnitude. And they will not be treating his Ebola, they will be keeping him alive, and allowing his body to try to fight it off. Then of course, there will be the post-recovery period. This 3 bed facility was constructed in 2005/6 to handle any extreme cases that might come out of the CDC, with its own ventilation, security, and containment features. Many professionals consider Emory uniquely qualified to handle this
As far as the students in Ga and the exposure to infectious diseases, are you aware that if you were to pick up Emory and Grady and the surrounding areas about a mile out, the amount of infectious, active TB cases would rival any African country - and in fact exceed most of them. That's just the TB - I'm thinking we don't even want to know what else is being treated on a routine basis at Emory.
I have a daughter actually IN the Emory hospital and doing a rotation in the infectious disease unit, whose roommate works at the CDC in the virus research department and I have zero degree concern about her safety, I'm thinking the kids at Emory U, Georgia Tech, and the surrounding public schools are safe from Ebola.
I worry way more about the TB -