Mandatory Ebola Quarantine, Can't this be done a bit more intelligently?

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@doorhinge

Didn’t the Dallas hospital report a drop in the number of elective patients after it became public that two of their healthcare workers had become infected from the ebola patient they had in their isolation room?

Gracious, I hope so. They screwed that up from the beginning to the end.

But, for a slightly more generous evaluation, you might be interested in this viewpoint of a local, from another thread:

@bump

Speaking as someone who’s visited Presbyterian’s ER twice in the past few years, I’d guess it wasn’t so much Duncan being black, as Presby being utterly unprepared to deal with exotic and fatal communicable diseases like Ebola.

The place is geared primarily toward 3 things- baby birthing, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery.

Their ER is most likely geared toward urgent care for the local area, which is predominantly white and suburban, with one low-income area literally down Greenville Avenue, which is where Duncan was staying. I suspect that critical care situations are stabilized at Presby and shipped to Parkland or Baylor, since they’re the local level 1 trauma centers, and I also suspect that the vast majority of uninsured non-ambulance ER people go to Parkland, since it’s the public hospital.

So Presby just flat out doesn’t see those things. They did a stellar job with my knee injury and subsequent surgery and with my wife’s pregnancy bleeding, for what that’s worth.