Responses:
1. There is no successful treatment (cure rates above 50%) for Ebola. The hand made experimental drugs ZMapp were used up treating the second American missionary Ebola patient in AUGUST 2014. There will be no significant supplies of ZMapp (a few hundred treatments) until next Spring (6 months plus). The photographer will (20%) or will not survive (80%) based solely on supportive care. Yes, provide him every advantage but understand the risks we are subjecting uninfected American citizens.
2. We are going to order 3,000 American Citizens into an Ebola “hot zone” for an as yet undefined period. Unless the live (24/7/TBD) in hazmat suits (hazmat suits are not standard issue) they will be exposed to Ebola. If Ebola is able to get inside hazmat suits being worn by experienced doctors what is the odds it will get inside hazmat suits worn by inexperienced personnel? During a DOD exercise I lived and worked in standard chemical warfare suits. They aren’t rated for prolonged exposure to chem/bio hazards.
Unless the American Citizens aren’t deployed until some time next spring the chances of being able to successfully treat them (see above) is essentially zero.
3. We have only successfully treated two, not three, American missionaries who were displaying full onset Ebola symptoms. At the end of their treatments there were no more ZMapp experimental drugs available. So right now we have a 100% success rate but there is no more ZMapp available. If there was why hasn’t the media announced Thomas Duncan already received it?
Responses to what, it wasn’t responsive to post 29.
“If he is American then he would naturally come to America to be treated, like all the other Americans have been.
Why do you think that an American soldier must die if he gets infected? What is the death rate so far for Americans treated in America?”