According to Louise Troh, Duncan was very private about his illness and attended to himself. I tend to believe that they either knew or suspected that he had Ebola, so they kept him quarantined to one room. Also, one of the relatives is a healthcare worker, and she was the one that warned the paramedics to put on additional gear, so perhaps she was making sure that everyone stayed away from him and decontaminated any areas in the apartment where he may have been.
His viral load may have also been much lower in his first days in the apartment, so there was less chance of contagion.
It is very curious, though, that for a virus that is supposedly so “hard to catch”, why they took everything out of that apartment, including the permanent fixtures and incinerated it. I believe it was 5 or 6 truckloads, for an apartment that was described as “sparsely furnished”. But, no danger here. Move along now...
The pictures of two men (w/o protective gear) power washing the sidewalk in front of the apt. rings in my head. A woman with sandals also walking through the water trailing into the parking lot.
Let’s say the family did practice some sort of “one room” quarantine, did he use the bathroom? Did they feed him with plastic spoons and paper plates?
If he projectile vomited in front of the apartment, did he have an accident in the other living quarters of the apartment? A less than 1200 sq ft living space mind you.
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Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!!