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Then how come it's classified as a level 4, and the people working in the labs have spacesuits and oxygen/negative pressure ventilation? Why aren't they just wearing masks, gloves, and gowns?
And the pics of the docs that I've seen have more than masks, gloves and gowns, yet the docs are getting sick too?
Better safe than sorry I say.
As to the distinction between airborne and droplets, the general public makes no distinction. To them droplets might as well be airborne, because if they don't touch the person, and get the disease when they were only in the room, they are going to feel like it was airborne.
Even though they may have simply stepped on the droplet and then taken off their shoe and got in on their hands and rubbed their eyes, they are exposed, and their story will be, I was only in the room. I never touched them, and I had nothing to do with their care, so it must be airborne.
At any rate, once they have the disease, I don't suppose they care whether it was truly airborne or not. They just want to get well, and are scared that they have been handed a death sentence.
Sloppy reporting is par for the course. You don't really expect reporters to do their jobs effectively do you? I haven't seen many if any for a long long time that do a good job.
Well, that's just me though. I wouldn't want to be in a room with an Ebola patient without the suit and negative ventilation, and oxygen etc. etc. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Guess I'm just a nervous Nellie.
I just posted what someone else posted. Once I started digging, I discovered everyone uses the same protocols. Not sure why the MSF guy was braggin’ on it, but maybe he was tryin’ to score some hot chick reporter.