If the procedures and protocols take ONE MISTAKE to infect you. And you’re using the protocols to protect HUMANS, who DO from time to time make mistakes. You WILL see infections in the healthcare workers.
And they will simply ‘sick out’ from working in those areas.
Better to introduce procedures and protocols that do NOT have a 100% chance of suicide from simply being human.
The MSF protocols are very stringent. And they’ve lost vanishingly few of their workers to this in comparison with even Western healthcare workers.
See if you can spot the differences:
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/10/us_hospitals_ready_to_treat_eb.html
If the pics above are the best WE can do as the best healthcare system in the world...then explain how MSF is able to do this in the bush, in the 3rd world...:
http://pulse.ng/news/disturbing-we-are-losing-battle-against-ebola-msf-reveals-id3101869.html
Now, if YOU were a healthcare worker taking care of a seizing, projectile vomiting and explosive pooping ebola patient, which garb would you feel the safest wearing. Our healthcare workers aren’t even covering their HAIR. And I can guarantee they aren’t (from just reading the al.com article) getting the MANDATORY to MSF protocol bleach washdown before they begin removing their protective gear.
Which is how we get sick people. That’s the real difference between level 2 biohazard procedures and level 4. Level 4 is a lot more forgiving than 2, you’ve got layers of protection, one mistake might not make it all the way through to.
But the MSF has lost people. One of the big things that holds down the people they lose is experience. These people go out to deal with multiple outbreaks of multiple things, they’re used to the protocols, they’re used to how to make the protocols work in the bush.
That’s not the best we can do. That’s the best we can do on short notice lacking the preferred equipment.
And yet with all that, 1 person. Really, stop panicking.