Only days ago I saw reports that Frieden claimed US care givers were at greater risk than Africans because standard care in the US involves procedures not possible in Africa, procedures such as intubation, procedures that put the care-given in exceptionally dangerous contact with the patient.
At the same time, he assured that proper methods, equipment, training, and supervision were adequate counters to that increased risk.
But the necessary package of those things - methods, equipment, etc. - is not possible at every hospital and that's why ideas such as the military flying squads of care givers and the possibility of shipping all the infected to the four most prepared hospitals in the country have been floated.
Add in the long-standing view of many that the US medical establishment effectively tortures patients and their families, prolonging horrific suffering and fear with procedures and methods that can achieve nothing else and in particular cannot save the dying patient.
And no doubt all that explains this.
Some U.S. hospitals weigh withholding care to Ebola patients
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