"Here's How You Get Ebola"

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Even 40 hr HAZWOPR training is at the C or B level, at best. The A level training is on the job, where you can(and sometimes need) to be an absolute bastard, getting people up to speed on your specific site needs. Plus it is a snap to find particulate hard radiation on a person. Radioactive contamination is a little to a lot harder to detect, although automated whole body scanners make it easier.

Biologics, on the other hand, cannot be detected by people or instruments, so you are 100% reliant on the decon, doffing, and second deconning/shower process. It sounds like Texas Pres. did a spot spray decon, doffing, and hand wash, although there is almost zero release of info for public consumption, with the forthcoming lawsuits.

The CDC and NIH differ on PPE protocols re Ebola. Until this month, I doubt there are any hospitals outside a Level A triage hospital(only a couple per state in large states) that have ever run an Ebola, Maarburg, or a Lassa fever outbreak scenario. Now we have the beginning of one, and we twice have failed at containment.