Uh, yeah, I’m not sure the affected nurse would agree with you.

Via Politico:

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in the United States was working.

“The system worked,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.”

On Sunday, officials in Texas announced that a second person in Dallas had tested positive for the deadly virus — a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week.

“She was on voluntary self-monitoring,” he said about the latest victim. “She found she got infected, and she immediately did what she was supposed to have done.”

“So even in this troublesome situation, the system is working,” Fauci said.

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Fauci argued against shutting down international travel from Africa, saying it could actually do more harm than good

“That would be counterproductive,” Fauci said about proposals to close borders and shut down flights. Fauci said that such travel disruptions can harm a country’s ability to fight the epidemic.

National Nurse’s Union disagrees with Fauci:

The country’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses on Sunday said American hospitals are still not communicating policies to health care workers regarding how to handle potential Ebola patients. National Nurses United also said that 85 percent of 1,900 nurses surveyed said their hospitals have not provided education about the virus in a setting that allows nurses to interact with or ask administrators questions.

“As has been shown in Dallas, they are not prepared,” NNU co-president Deborah Burger said in a press conference in Oakland, Calif.

Burger said that companies who remove and expose Ebola-contaminated materials are better prepared than hospital personnel.

“There is a huge vacuum in both credibility and implementation,” she said of U.S. hospitals.

The organization called for hospitals to immediately develop and communicate their emergency preparedness plans for Ebola or other outbreaks. That includes full training, adequate supplies of Hazmat suits and protective gear, properly-equipped isolation rooms and procedures for waste and linen disposal.
“We’re still not clear on why our hospitals are dragging their feet,” Burger said. “We think there may be a bit of denial involved in this.”