His wife had flown home for a family wedding and he had planned to join them, but became sick. The Ebola outbreak started in March and Dr. Brantly was thrown into the situation and acted heroically. He stepped up to treat the Ebola patients in a special ward he set up in a hospital chapel. He was not an exotic infectious disease specialist and tried his best to help the people in Africa.
They do not wear those special suits 24/7 and a colleague probably infected both him and Mrs. Writebol when they were not wearing the special suits. It is Africa and hard to fight a deadly virus in primitive conditions where they do not have access to the most basic medical supplies.
I'm proud Dr. Brantly stepped up to help these people in their desperate condition. I would have run as fast as possible at the first mention of Ebola. We have the facilities to safely help them in Atlanta, so we should do the right thing. Samaritan’s Purse spent millions to get them safely here, but I'm sure many, many people are writing checks right now to help them. I will be.
If this virus is so deadly that the special unit at Emory can't contain it with the best infectious disease doctors in the world, then this virus is going to kill everyone anyway. I'm betting on the doctors at Emory though and glad that Brantly and Writebol have consented to be test subjects so they can learn more about this deadly virus. They really are heroes and deserve our best.
Shame on your Ann.
Exactly.
Great post. Thank you. I am so humbled by these servants who were obedient to the Lord’s Call. They will be richly rewarded and deservedly so.
Like I have said before, I am not worried about these two people, arriving in a bubble, and being in in an isolation chamber at Emory. I am more concerned about the untold number of possibly infected people that are streaming in unchecked, via air travel and open borders. This is how something devastating like Ebola or worse will breach our borders.
It is probably not a matter of if, but when.