CDC Confirms

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There is no "cure" for EBOLA. It first appeared on the radar screen in 2001, yet the CDC, FDA, the drug industry etc gave it very low priority, so everything that the doctors are doing is purely experimental. Obviously the costs are going to be very high, and that leads to your question. Will the insurance cover the costs? Unfortunately the answer is no. Will the hospitals eat the costs? I doubt it. Can the nurses afford the costs? Again, no. Obviously someone will have to pay the costs, but at what point will a final cost be reached?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-scare-turns-dallas-hospital-ghost-town/story?id=26276610

[jay]

Can you imagine what it costs to treat just one of the nurses from the Dallas hospital?

[sfc_oliver]

At the hospital where that guy died....But we're safe....

[Peggy Gurney]

Where?

[jay]

Now a health care worker in Texas has contracted the virus.

[Towntalk]

Everything you need to know about Ebola Virus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/01/ebola-virus-what-you-need-to-know-outbreak/16524645/

[jay]

Now a TV camera man has contracted ebola.

[Towntalk]

   I concur with you 1099765993640855221% 

[Peggy Gurney]

Wouldn't need to, St. E's already has a helepad on site, and a tunnel across Belmont to Belpark would be all that would be needed to move patients and squipment/supplies from one place to the other.

BUT, if the former Tod's Children's Hospital were used for this purpose, all that would be needed would be updating equipment everything else is there.

Both places could be used.
In fact, if there is an outbreak, they would almost assuredly need both facilities.
No way could Tod accommodate everyone.

[Towntalk]

Wouldn't need to, St. E's already has a helepad on site, and a tunnel across Belmont to Belpark would be all that would be needed to move patients and squipment/supplies from one place to the other.

BUT, if the former Tod's Children's Hospital were used for this purpose, all that would be needed would be updating equipment everything else is there.

[AllanY2525]

What about the empty medical office building across the street from St. E's on Belmont? 
No it is not a hospital, but it is across the street from one, providing easy access to needed medical supplies.

That would be a perfect place.  Could probably hold several hundred at a time as an extension of the
hospital.  They could block off Belmont Avenue from Park Ave to the next street up and land choppers
there.

[Peggy Gurney]

That's the one.  It's not as large as a hospital, granted, but it is empty and could certainly be put to use with its close proximity to St E's.
In fact, if you look at the top photo, it seems that there could be room to land a helicopter?

Additionally, there are a number of empty buildings in close proximity to St. E's that could be used.

[Towntalk]

Some pix of the Belpark Building

[Peggy Gurney]

What about the empty medical office building across the street from St. E's on Belmont? 
No it is not a hospital, but it is across the street from one, providing easy access to needed medical supplies.

[Towntalk]

If it is not being used by the new owners the former Tod's Children's Hospital would be the very best location of all.