The infection of with the Ebola virus shows just how unprepared the U.S. is to deal with the deadly disease — and that starts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An Ebola expert said the CDC’s initial rules were “absolutely irresponsible and dead wrong,” according to .
Sean Kaufman, who oversaw infection control at Emory University Hospital while it treated two Ebola patients, told the CDC its instructions were flawed. “They kind of blew me off,” he said.
Since then, the CDC has upgraded its guidelines, but only after CDC director Thomas Frieden blamed an infected health care worker for breaching protocols.
As the U.S. and the world deal with this disease, health authoritites must issue more stringent disease-control guidelines and stop issuing premature proclamations of safety that they may end up having to walk back.
