[PA Engineer]

You are correct, but it will take a nurses union strike under pressure of an Ebola outbreak to make the CDC change it’s pointy haired bureaucratic mind.

I think one of issues with the CDC "guidelines" was the necessity to give cover to hospitals. I would imagine most hospitals will hide behind the CDC recommendations for legal cover. It would take months for any lawsuits to make it into the court system and years before resolution. Who knows how many 1000s of HCW workers will become infected.

They know the standard hospital cannot handle ebola infected patients without interrupting standard medical services. They are just pushing their lack of preparation down the road past elections.

[Dark Wing]

Neither Ebola nor Health Care Worker’s strikes will await the November elections.

A HCW union local in Las Vegas has already staged a “Die In” over lack of BHL-4 PPE.

A wildcat HCW strike for BHL-4 PPE for the next Ebola outbreak is a distinct and growing possibility.

The only thing that has prevented one at Texas Health Presby in Dallas is the lack of a HCW union in the first instance.

Can you see Pres Obama laying a 60-day cooling of fperiod for such a strike? </sarc>

[Thud]

Congress will give the hospitals retroactive immunity to civil liability for the Ebola deaths of health care workers, and make Medicare plus possibly some form of federal death benefit (likely the Social Security death benefit) the sole source of compensation for all Ebola victims. I am certain of this.