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You ever looked at all the crap doctors get? Med alerts, various journals, plus the ads trying to get them to prescribe new stuff. They get way too much crap to be able to digest it all. My old GP used to take two vacations a year, one to catch up on his medical reading and one to actually have a vacation. So a bunch of people who probably hadn't had a chance to read the warnings about SARS didn't detect it until too late. Feces happens. The fact that Kwai spent 12 hours on a gurney shows these guys were pretty heavily over worked. it's an imperfect world and the methods of informing doctors about things are gloriously imperfect.

This does show why quarentines are so worthless though, hundreds of people exposed in one hospital before anybody even knows what's going on, if you're gonna quarentine you now have to track all of them down and everybody they've been in contact with and on and on and on. The disease will have run it's course before you've quarentined eveybody you need to.