One of our main screening tools is about to become useless

[B2G]

"Have you recently traveled to W. Africa"?

"No? OK then. Have some antibiotics and come back in in two days if you aren't feeling better".

[NightWatcher]

1. Have you had contact with anyone who may have been in Dallas or Cleveland?

Or anyone who had contact with anyone who has flown through the airports in Dallas and Cleveland or any of the other airports or towns connected by air travel or vehicle traffic in the past 10 days?

[B2G]

3. Hope that 10 minute test under development

is about ready.

And being produced in mass quantity.

[PearliePoo2]

2. Good point. What's next? Maybe this:

Have you left your home and had any interaction with anyone?
(I know...it's off the scale, but still...)

[enlightenment]

4. There was an interesting segment on NPR yesterday

wherein they interviewed the Chief of Staff at one of the big hospitals in Monrovia, Liberia. It has been closed to Ebola patients - because they were so hard hit with doctor/nurse deaths they had to close for a while - and they still need to care for all the people who are not infected with the disease.

The chief was talking about how they screen patients and pointed out that you can't just ask the standard questions because they will probably lie, knowing they won't be admitted. It's a horrific situation.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/14/355873770/back-on-its-feet-a-liberian-hospital-aims-to-keep-ebola-out