Really sad what this country has become isn’t it? New York hospitals are now conducting ‘Ebola drills’ in preparation for an outbreak of the imported disease from Africa. Both public and private hospitals are conducting these Ebola drills.
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Public and private hospitals around New York are quietly conducting Ebola drills, sending fake patients to test emergency-room staff in the proper methods to identify and safely isolate a person suspected of having the virus.
Key to the protocol is one simple question: Have you traveled recently?
The move to prepare area hospitals and educate health-care workers is largely in response to the increased chance that a patient will arrive in New York infected with Ebola, said Ross Wilson, the chief medical officer at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
“If a patient does not get identified early, you have what happened in Dallas,” said Dr. Wilson. “The first thing is that you get more people in the community in contact with Ebola. The second thing is that you can increase the risk to health-care workers.”