So in other words, a major academic medical center was completely caught off guard, completely unaware of and completely unprepared to deal with any dangerous and highly infectious diseases prior to this most recent outbreak of Ebola? They are just now training their staff?
If find that hard to believe but if true, that is truly frightening, Ebola or no Ebloa.
That’s one interpretation. My interpretation is somewhat different. Having worked here for almost 30 years, and having been through these things before (e.g., swine flu, avian flu, hantavirus, etc.) they’re adjusting to the new reality and making sure they’ve got all their ducks lined up, just as they should. Just because they’re making adjustments doesn’t mean things would have gone badly without them. In the past there was no particular reason to ask if someone had travelled to Sierra Leone in the past 21 days. Now there is. They’re making the kinds of changes they should make based on the specifics of the current situation, rather than the generic kinds of preparations you make in the absence of a specific threat.