I would think no medical system is designed to treat epidemics on this scale. However, there were very serious weaknesses in how the Dallas hospital responded to Mr. Duncan the first time he came to the ER, which probably won’t happen again. The least of which is when a person comes into the ER with a fever and says they were recently in West Africa, they won’t send him home with antibiotics.
I’m having a real hard time believing there is only 1 patient infected by Duncan (prayers for her complete recovery) and that nurse was in complete PPE.
It has been 17 days since Duncan first presented and 15 since he re-presented. I think we need to prepare for hundreds of new diagnoses this week.