Frieden claims, after spending billions on 5 such hospitals, any ol’ podunk hospital will do. Probably because he knows he doesn’t have enough beds when it gets into the wild.
Isolation Unit Beds:
2? - Emory, Atlanta
3 - The Care and Isolation Unit in Missoula, Montana, opened in 2005 by the National Institutes of Health to serve lab workers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, hasn’t yet served an infectious disease patient, only a handful with tuberculosis or contagious bacterial infections. The rooms look like everyday hospital rooms—white, sterile, a TV and window for entertainment. That’s because St. Patrick Hospital retrofitted three of its ICU rooms to make the unit.
10 – Omaha, Nebraska Medical Center run twice yearly drills with decontamination at their hospital’s 10-bed biocontainment unit. Opened in 2005. Has never had an infectious disease patient. Prior to Dr. Sacra in Sept., the unit had only briefly housed one patient with malaria five years ago. Malaria does not require quarantine.
7 - NIH opened a seven-bed Special Clinical Studies Unit at the Clinical Research Center in Bethesda to replace it. Its four patient rooms (two doubles and a single). Bethesda unit has only served a patient with a drug-resistant bacterial illness. “It can handle the highest level of respiratory virus, but Ebola isn’t even spread that way,” said Richard Davey, deputy clinical director of NIH’s Division of Clinical Research.
? - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) – Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
Thank-you for your research. That is a pretty pathetic worst-case scenario contagion safety net.
It would seem we are similar to third world countries where all the tax payers’ treasures have been leached away from their original intentions to some cronies’ secret pockets.
I bet the movie industry with their fantasy ideal of a super-competent industrial/military/healthcare complex is deflating its’ perspectives for the next set of disaster flicks...or maybe not...they are after all the propaganda arm of the leftist regime.
The Christian organizations who are already on the ground in Africa, and have the experience in this fight, will most likely rush to fill the gap and will do their best to contain the outbreak through their own volunteerism, until the government trips them up with their regularions.
As for the private enterprise drug companies who are working on cures, they will be used to vilify their small stores (caused by bureaucracy and over-regulation) and will the the left’s natural scapegoat.