He DID tell the ER nurse that info, but it was ignored.
Coincidentally, the movie The Verdict ran last night.
And heard the LOVELY excuse of it being the fault of the electronic records he wasn’t ‘detained’ right then and there.
The nurse/orderly/etc., upon HEARING he was from W. Africa (I’m presuming s/he KNEW geography) blissfully filled out the chart....and left. NO indication that a red flag was raised, no indication of ‘Uh, doc, this guy just came from the Ebola hot-zone’.
I’ll again presume this was the job of the, again, ‘lovely’ free-clinic/E.R./etc. that would treat any other ‘illegal/non-insured’.
You’d THINK, even with electronic records, there’d be SOME flag in the system: IE: “WARNING: “Country of origin, possible Ebola. Test for...”; let alone a REAL ‘health professional’ instead of some keyboard monkey just entering data....