The CDC and Emory are joined at the hip. If anyone is going to be professional and good with this, it is these two, non-eventful recent mishaps nonwithstanding.
Emory faculty had a nice level 4 facility they’d never used. That’s their main consideration.
That, and the funding stream they’ll inevitably get from this.
Well, and all the Science and Nature publications.
Hubris writ large.
If it gets out they should be held financially, legally and personally responsible.