Thomas Duncan is on a ventilator.
Vents are used for many emergencies, diseases, accidents.
With the spread of the enterovirus, seasonal flu, and possibly Ebola, how will medical care keep up? If supplies for support (of a person until body is stronger) dwindle, who gets the care? The car accident victim that needs a vent? The entervirus victim? The COPD patient in hospice? I can’t see this ending well when the medical care is stretched to the limit.
The US can’t keep up with something as simple as saline solution. Ventilators are way down the list. Better buy your own today. Buy a complete Level 4 set up and contract out a nursing aide who’s already survived Ebola to care for you because the US health care workers will soon head to the hills just like those in West Africa have done. Not typed with any sort of sarcasm.