Patient was not involved in Ebola work in Africa. Spokeshole will not talk about the airline or flight back from Africa. Claims he did not get sick for 4 days after returning, so nobody on the flight was exposed.
Consider the following. Instead of traveling to Dallas and going to a 700 bed hospital, he goes to a 60 bed hospital staffed by mostly GP's. The patient, vomiting and with diarrhea, walks in to the ER, or perhaps even the doctors busy office. They order anti emetics and antidiarrheals. Two days later he is no better and goes back to the GP. The doctor says, "Well, maybe we need to admit you and correct the fluid-electrolyte problems. So...he goes in to the hospital through admission department, a nurse puts him in a wheel chair, puts an ID bracelet on him, puts him in a gown, rolls him down the hall to a room with a roommate, starts an IV. The phlebotomist comes and draws blood, and the patient is scheduled to move to the ER for a routine chest EKG technician comes and puts electrodes on the sweaty chest of the patient and runs an EKG. The patient becomes more nauseated and the nurse is ordered to put an NG tube down. It is placed on suction. Those fluids are checked each shift in order to calculate fluid loss. With the NG tube, IV tubes in place the patient uses a urinal and those fluids are likewise checked and the nurse pours them (after measuring the volume) down the toilet. The next day the patient is no better so emperic antibiotics are begun. The antibiotic is run in over a period of 1 hour and then separated from the IV fluid tube. That will be discarded. The patient is coughing and hacking in the same room with his room-mate ( and his visitors). The gown is removed daily and sent to the laundry service and thus the people who work there. He is tried on clear liquids. His jello is not kept down. So the dishes are removed and sent to be washed.
I could go on, but ........ you get the picture.
How many people will be significantly exposed? Yet the CDC attempts to minimize the risk.
Now I will tell you a story. In the early 80's I was in training in surgery when AIDS came to our prominence. We were told it was limited to IV drug users and homosexuals. Initially, we were told heterosexuals were excluded. Then about 2 years we leafed it could be transmitted by heterosexual transmission. The question came, "could a baby contract AIDS by imbibing breast milk. The answer from the CDC was, Absolutely Not! Well, we found out different about a year later. What I am saying is, 'we do not know, what we do not know'. What perplexes me is the cavalear nature of the CDC dismissing so many concerns of possibilities that we might later learn are true, but are now being dismissed. How did the Obstetrician from Iberia contract Ebola? We simply do not know. Lets get the answer before we dismiss so many possibilities.