The working hypothesis is that Western care in Western facilities will reduce the mortality rate. This may or may not be true.
Kent Brantley and Nancy Writebol are still alive at Emory (AFAIK). Presumably they are getting unusually excellent care, but I understand that all the ZMapp that has been produced is gone.
The biggest problem I foresee is discussed here. We do not have the capacity (in the whole US and Western Europe) to handle more than a few patients at the level that the Emory patients are being cared for. While actual Ebola cases will not be common, febrile arrivals from West Africa are not at all uncommon and they will need to be isolated, and HCWs protected, until Ebola testing is completed.
If anything crashes the system, it will be our inability to do that.
Thanks Jim. I appreciate the mention.