The picture you've derived from these hearings matches what I've independently arrived at. As for Dr. Lurie, the point I left out was what brought her to my at

The picture you've derived from these hearings matches what I've independently arrived at. As for Dr. Lurie, the point I left out was what brought her to my attention, the fact that despite all the things I mentioned, putting as good a face on them as I could, people are asking where the bleep is she? Are you sure about the number of beds at the NIH? The word up to now is that they have 7, but that ward, or maybe there's more than one, has multiple uses, including things like live virus vaccine tests. So maybe they can only dedicate 2 to this sort of thing, which means the national capacity is under 20 as I first heard, a total of 18. 4 of which are in use, because the first nurse, Pham, is being moved from the ex-Dallas Ebola Magnet Hospital of Excellence to the NIH. (Emory got nurse #2 Amber, and is handling another medevac, and Omaha has the NBC cameraman.) Per the always energetic Daily News (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795480/texas-presbyterian-nurse-cared-ebola-stricken-colleague-reveals-protective-suit-gaping-hole-neck.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795480/texas-presby...) that might be because even after Duncan, Dallas Presbyterian did not have proper PPE (e.g. a big gap below the chin), and I've heard rumors its ER is shut down by a walkout, with the ICU almost to that point. Which these nurses' reports buttress. And don't forget Dallas Presbyterian is an above average hospital, everything I'm hearing is that normal ones are just not architecturally, let alone culturally or equipment wise set up for pathogens this bad. Emory's lessons learned from their first two patients shows even they had to improvise and adapt, but not with PPE and the like. Ah, I should mention I got some experience at one of my local ERs when my father got sick in the spring of last year. They were very good, but he was non-contagious (anemia). As for "twenty or fifty cities", do you believe Duncan is the last Ebola tourist we'll receive on our shores? "A really brutal performance review" indeed. I'll close by noting that it sure looks to me like the heads of the CDC and NIH are acting like politicians, and not doctors or researchers.