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Ah, it turns out we have a grand total of 23 hospital beds nation wide in theory qualified for Ebola: 3 at Emory: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2
by hga 12y ago
Ah, it turns out we have a grand total of 23 hospital beds nation wide in theory qualified for Ebola:
3 at Emory: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2005/July/July%205/isolationunit.htm http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2005/July/July%2...
3 in Montana, and they've never used them or put their protocols to the test: http://missoulian.com/news/local/st-patrick-hospital-of-sites-in-u-s-ready-for/article_da521772-4839-11e4-b266-4342d105e33f.html http://missoulian.com/news/local/st-patrick-hospital-of-site...
7 at the NIH, and it sounds like they've gotten some use: http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/translational-research-resources/resources/special_clinical_studies.html http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/translational-research-resourc...
As mentioned before, 10 in Nebraska, and they don't have a BSL-4 lab handy; hopefully they have, or are setting up, a mini-lab there, for as Emory realized, it's not practical to send samples from Ebola patients to the hospital's main lab: http://www.nebraskamed.com/biocontainment-unit http://www.nebraskamed.com/biocontainment-unit
- hga 12y agoCORRECTION: It turns out the nation has only 11 "Ebola beds": the Omaha and NIH wards can only treat 1-2 and 2 patients with something this bad out of the 10 and 7 total beds they have. Which leaves 7 free at the moment.