Zachary Thompson isn’t even a doctor. He’s a social worker in charge of Dallas HHS. He’s not qualified to be making these statements. And yes, you’re correct. 21 days must pass before you can declare containment, as shown by the recent experiences in Nigeria.
"Did we dodge a bullet?"
"I don't think we did," Jahrling said. "The bullet hit us. We were just lucky that the bullet we took was a rubber bullet from a twenty-two rather than a dumdum bullet from a forty-five. My concern is that people are saying, "Whew, we dodged a bullet.' And the next time they see Ebola in a microscope, they'll say, 'Aw, it's just Reston,' and they'll take it outside a containment facility. And we'll get whacked in the forehead when the stuff turns out not to be Reston but its big sister."
C.J. PETERS EVENTUALLY left the Army to become the chief of the Special Pathogen Branch at the Centers for Disease Control. Looking back on the Reston event, he said to me one day that was pretty sure Ebola had spread through the air, "I think the pattern of spread that we saw, and the fact that it spread to new rooms, suggest that Ebola aerosols were being generated and were present in the building," he said. "If you look at pictures of lungs from a monkey with Ebola Zaire, you see that the lungs are fogged with Ebola. Have you seen those pictures?" "Yes, Nancy Jaax showed them to me."
"Then you know. You can see Ebola particles clearly in the air spaces of the lung."