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5. Profit-based system

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 06:11 PM

Oct 2014

All hospitals are probably staffed to the absolute minimum. Properly equipping for ebola means more overhead. More overhead = less profit.

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Better Ebola response may have prevented nurse's case, CDC head says [View all] pnwmom Oct 2014 OP

What you said. Little Star Oct 2014 #2

Only 4 places in the US are equipped to handle Ebola. candelista Oct 2014 #13

Exactly Little Star Oct 2014 #14

it's Texas... TheVisitor Oct 2014 #3

Any day now. Just watch. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #4

You just spread a bunch of bullshit TexasMommaWithAHat Oct 2014 #6

The CDC DID NOT admit their protocols are wrong! STOP LYING!!! SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #7

EMORY HOSPITAL Ebola Patients WERE TREATED IN A BIO LEVEL 4 HAZARD UNIT TexasMommaWithAHat Oct 2014 #8

So what? CDC Protocol WAS NOT FOLLWED in Texas, period! SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #9

I DO NOT get my information from Breitbart. TexasMommaWithAHat Oct 2014 #10

The CDC did change their protocols... City Lights Oct 2014 #11

That article is misleading... SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #15

Here's a NYTimes article saying CDC changed their guidelines: City Lights Oct 2014 #17

Texas Momma appears to be correct: dixiegrrrrl Oct 2014 #12

Then CDC was very, very wrong, weren't they? LisaL Oct 2014 #16

Profit-based system Dopers_Greed Oct 2014 #5