Dallas, we have a problem

[Black Aeronaut]

ordnance11 wrote:

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robkelk wrote:

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ordnance11 wrote:

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Rob, that means the CDC will have to send a team to every hospital every time there's a possible threat. Which is going to smack of Big Brother, with the Big "B". ...

I agree on the first sentence, but fail to see how the second sentence follows from that premise.

They're the experts. They should be going in.

The Tea Partiers will decry it as Presidential overeach. I'm surprised they're not growling about it. It also poses the question of whether the CDC can unilaterally take over parts of a private facility? But since it looks like private hospitals can't be trusted to respond effectively, it might have to.

Probably because as much as Tea Partiers think that God will protect them, they don't want to take any chances on winding up shitting out their intestinal linings.
By all means, now that one hospital has demonstrated penultimate incompetence, send in the specialists.  If nothing else then to make sure that procedure is followed.