So the hazmat team arrives with its respirators and cleans AROUND the unprotected family

[pnwmom]

that's still confined to the apartment.

Does this make sense to anyone?

ON EDIT: Now they say they plan to move the family to a new location later today. Which will be AFTER the several-hour cleaning. Why didn't they move the family BEFORE the cleaning?

First they cleaned the apartment. Then they moved the family to another location.

Does this make sense to anyone?

They say they can't move the family till Duncan's car is secured and contained. What the heck does Duncan's car have to do with anything?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-patients-sequestered-relatives-moving-undisclosed-location/story?id=25948830

The individuals, who include two men, a 13 year old boy named Timothy, and a woman named Louise Troh, will be moved once the Fire Marshall secures and contains the car that Duncan was in before being taken to the emergency room. Troh traveled with Duncan from Liberia and has been referred to as Duncan's wife by other family members.

[morningfog]

1. They have essentially guaranteed the family

will be infected. Maybe they want to see if any of them show that immunity to it. The family was pretty well damned already, but keeping in soiled apartment made no sense.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I'm not even sure why they bothered.

If anyone in the family is infected, they'll start shedding again as soon as they get to the 'show symptoms' phase, and by now I would expect any virus outside of a host from the original guy to be dead ("inactive&quot .

[etherealtruth]

3. This has been such a cluster **** from the word go

Nothing 'they' have done has made any sense

[Louisiana1976]

4. Would the family have been treated any better had they been white?

[pnwmom]

5. I wonder that, too. n/t

[Niceguy1]

6. probably

This is Texas after all

[cwydro]

7. Crazy.

None of this makes sense.

[BlindTiresias]

8. Best healthcare in the world

[Wellstone ruled]

9. This is what you get from

privatized low ball haz mat clean-ups. Brownies duct tape and plastic,that's the ticket. Ignorant twits. All these family members should have been moved to a clean and safe environment on day one and a decontamination team on scene within minutes not to Texas.

[Aerows]

10. This should be the canary in the coal mine

to signal that in the US, we just aren't ready for a public health crisis in a major US city.

This particular situation will likely be gotten under control, since so many of the suspected cases have turned up negative. The problem is what happens with the next public health crisis? This pretty much shows that many major US cities aren't ready, and this needs to be a lesson that we take to heart.

[pnwmom]

11. I agree. This should be a lesson that all the other cities are paying very close attention to,

instead of everyone just counting on some automatically superior American capability that we clearly don't have.

[uppityperson]

13. Yup, other places sure better learn from this how to not do it right.

[cwydro]

12. Now they've got them hidden away.

No more interviews with CNN...hmmm