A “no trespassing” sign hangs on the apartment building where health care worker Nina Pham, who contracted the Ebola virus, resides in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday. Pham contracted the virus when she provided treatment to Thomas Eric Duncan, the West African man who later died from the disease. (Mike Stone, Getty Images)
Re: “Nurse who treated Dallas patient tests positive for Ebola,” Oct. 13 news story.
The Associated Press article about a new case of Ebola in a health care worker in Dallas states, “The case raises doubts about whether hospitals around the country … are prepared to safely deal with the Ebola virus … .”
This case doesn’t raise doubts about whether U.S. hospitals are prepared to safely deal with the Ebola virus; most of us already had such doubts. The new case in Dallas answers that question with a resounding “No!”
Gary Waldman, Aurora
This letter was published in the Oct. 15 edition.
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