The military is using an Ebola screening machine that could have diagnosed the Ebola cases in Texas far faster, but government guidelines prevent hospitals from using it to actually screen for Ebola.
It’s a toaster-sized box called Film Array, produced by a company called BioFire, a subsidiary of bioMérieux and it’s capable of detecting Ebola with a high degree of confidence — in under an hour.
Thsi was poted here before: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/10/dallas-hospital-had-ebola-screening-machine-military-using-africa/96713/
So, the Texas hospital has had this machine that can detect Ebola within an hour, but the FDA won’t allow the hospital to use it to detect Ebola? Wha-?
Looks like if the virus doesn’t kill us, the red tape will.