This is a human problem, which is easily apparent in Africa too. At one hearing a congressman pointed out that medical professionals are human too. One argued against quarantining medical professionals who volunteer in Africa and return to the U.S. The opposition argued that it would put too much of a burden on volunteers keeping them from their jobs and families. So they should not be quarantined because they are special humans?
[From article]
An extraordinary number of Bellevue Hospital staffers called in sick on Friday rather than treat the city’s first Ebola patient — and those who showed up were terrified to enter his isolation chamber, sources told The Post.
“The nurses on the floor are miserable with a ‘why me?’ attitude, scared to death and overworked because all their co-workers called out sick,” one source said.
“One nurse even went as far as to pretend she was having a stroke to get out of working there, but once they cleared her in the ER they sent her back up,” the source added.
[. . .]
“As a doctor, he knows a lot about medicine, so he would call the nurses station all day and going back and forth with doctors on what to do,” the source said.
The sick doctor has been passing time in his pressurized room by watching TV and eating hospital food.
Visitors are forbidden — but he’ll be able to Skype with friends and pals once his room gets outfitted with a video camera, sources said.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/many-bellevue-staffers-take-sick-day-in-ebola-panic/
Bellevue staffers call in ‘sick’ after Ebola arrives
By Jamie Schram and Larry Celona
New York Post
October 25, 2014 | 1:03am
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