This is our biggest problem right now. Maybe the party line is right - HCWs in Africa are getting infected at great rates, despite using PPE we don't even have because [fill in the blank] - but that's not the way to bet. How do I know this?
Well, help me answer this question: "You tell me it's OK to go in this room with a woman from DRC who just was brought here from the airport by Lutheran Social Services with a 103 fever using regular PPE, right? Then how come the patients at Emory are in a special, multi-million dollar BL4 unit and everybody from CDC and on the staff are wearing spacesuits?"
Until the arrival of sick refugees from West Africa is stopped (and it has been going on since at least 2006), this unanswerable question is going to be asked over and over.
Exactly. One look at how Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol were brought to Emory shows what utter crap they are shoveling now. I want to see the head of the CDC and all those "experts" in basic PPE treating infected and symptomatic patients. I may as look for unicorns.