Dallas Nurse Infected With Ebola to Be Transferred to NIH

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12. I'm afraid the consequences of that

would be far fewer hospital beds.

Like many rural communities, we have a very small hospital. It's fine for things like sprained ankles, normal childbirths, etc. But, for anything major, they transfer to a hospital better suited to treat the problem. As an example, I once took my dh to the local hospital for what I thought would be a bad migraine. About a half hour later, he was in an ambulance heading for a hospital 1.5 hours away with a diagnosed aneurysm.

Maybe at any given time there are two or three people being treated as in-patients.

If our hospital, and every other small hospital, had to be outfitted with biocontainment gear, the cost would be prohibitive, and those small hospitals would close, and people with sprained ankles, pregnant women, and all those other "minor" problems would have to go elsewhere. Our docs would all leave.

Simply not feasible, or even practical.