Leaing Ft. Detrick off that list is very telling. They are expecting the troops they’ve sent into the hot zone will catch it and they’ll need Ft. Detrick for them. This is not good. Not good at all.
Isolation Unit Beds:
2? - Emory, Atlanta
3 - The Care and Isolation Unit in Missoula, Montana, opened in 2005 by the National Institutes of Health to serve lab workers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, hasnt yet served an infectious disease patient, only a handful with tuberculosis or contagious bacterial infections. The rooms look like everyday hospital roomswhite, sterile, a TV and window for entertainment. Thats because St. Patrick Hospital retrofitted three of its ICU rooms to make the unit.
10 Omaha, Nebraska Medical Center run twice yearly drills with decontamination at their hospitals 10-bed biocontainment unit. Opened in 2005. Has never had an infectious disease patient. Prior to Dr. Sacra in Sept., the unit had only briefly housed one patient with malaria five years ago. Malaria does not require quarantine.
7 - NIH opened a seven-bed Special Clinical Studies Unit at the Clinical Research Center in Bethesda to replace it. Bethesda unit has only served a patient with a drug-resistant bacterial illness before this. It can handle the highest level of respiratory virus, but Ebola isnt even spread that way, said Richard Davey, deputy clinical director of NIHs Division of Clinical Research.
? - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
CDC scrambling 10/13 to have Parkland and Baylor University Medical Center Dallas to care for adults and Childrens Medical Center Dallas for kids. Those are still not Level 4.
USAMRIID’s old building had 4 hospital beds IIRC. They are in a brand new building now, and is ALOT bigger and has a bigger “Slammer” from what I’ve heard.