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Another Morning Rounds, another double feature from STAT’s Helen Branswell. Theresa and I do not track this, but I’m almost positive Helen holds the record for newsletters in which she has two or more stories.
As Ebola outbreak grows, the U.S. retreats from the global health leadership
Any Americans who contract Ebola will not be brought to the United States for treatment, Trump administration officials confirmed on Thursday. Instead, they will be evacuated to as-yet-undetermined locations in Europe — despite the existing network of facilities in the U.S. for just this purpose.
Officials said transporting infected individuals to Europe would help them receive care faster, but health experts criticized the move as another signal of the broader retreat from intervening and stopping the disaster, already the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record. The priority appears to be on insulating the U.S. from the disease, despite the millions of dollars in federal funding spent to handle such situations.
