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The cavalry isn't coming, but the infectious diseases areOn a November morning in 2018, a man checked into a crowded emergency department (ED) in California reporting fever and body aches. The clerk who checked him in quickly deduced that he had arrived 2 days prior from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was raging. Confusion ensued. The patient was swiftly isolated: staff members walked him to a room while maintaining the recommended 6 feet of distance. Once roomed, however, they had difficulty locating the appropriate Tier 3 personal protective equipment (PPE) needed...

The Washington Free Beacon October 15, 2014Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said the U.S. government did not sufficiently respond to the Ebola crisis in the United States. “We could have done much better [on] the oversight of the the implementation of the protocols,” Burwell told NBC’s Matt Lauer on Wednesday. Burwell said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a “full team” to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed and treated for Ebola. Burwell lamented that the implementation of protocols to treat Ebola patients and protect health care workers...