But it’s still safe to import violently ill patents to the US, right?
Provided they are American Citizens, Americans are above the need for anything so pesky as a quarantine!
The 3 American patients, two doctors and a kind of nurse, were all "quarantined", they are/were treated at one of our 4 special quarantine isolation units for this disease.
Who told you that they weren't quarantined?
The decision to bring severely ill Americans back here for treatment is utterly ruthless. It is to get a sample of the disease. They actually prefer if the person dies, so they can tissue sample every organ of their body.
Many viruses and bacteria do not culture “in vitro”, outside of the body, but only “in vivo”, in the body.
Of utmost importance is to find out if the pathogen is natural, or has been “weaponized”. If it is the latter, then a state of war exists with whoever developed it.
A new tool they have these days is to determine its entire genome. A very difficult and time consuming process, it gives them “the keys to the kingdom” of the pathogen, with many possible vulnerabilities.
And in the US, this is around the clock research, highest priority, because the epidemic is still ongoing.