US medical facilities can really only handle a few dozen Ebola patients
by: Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, October 19, 2014
In the event of a large-scale Ebola outbreak in the U.S., the Nebraska Medical Center, where Ebola victim Dr. Rick Sacra was successfully treated, is fully equipped with a special biocontainment unit to treat infected patients and prevent further infection. But this unit, the largest of just four in the entire country, can only ideally handle about two patients — and 10 at most!
This is hardly enough beds to deal with the onslaught of patients that would emerge during an actual outbreak, yet medical authorities continue to assure the public that everything will be fine. As you may recall, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas Frieden told The Washington Post back on September 30 that the government was “stopping [Ebola] in its tracks in this country.”
That was several days, of course, before Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola into the U.S. from Liberia, spreading it to his nurse and potentially dozens of others. So much for stopping Ebola in its tracks, huh, Dr. Frieden?
Now, authorities are trying to pull the “America has the best healthcare system in the world” card to reassure the public that an Ebola outbreak wouldn’t really be that big of a deal — except for that pesky lack of beds part. Yes, the U.S. has tens of thousands of hospital beds available at more than 5,700 hospitals throughout the country. But none of these facilities is equipped to contain Ebola, which seems to be spreading despite instituting high-level safety protocols.
“Our robust and sophisticated medical and public health infrastructure is supposed to be able to handle the situation. Like it did in Dallas?” wrote Dr. Jane M. Orient, M.D., for WND.com.
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