Ebola: What Should We Do Now?

Four suggestions on what we need to successfully counter Ebola

A healthcare worker mixes chlorine with water at an Ebola treatment center in Hastings, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Oct. 15. Associated Press

Suggestions include:

"...we need two kinds of technological innovations in diagnosis: one for the airports and points of entry, and one for the field and hospitals. For passengers and visitors, we need a rapid finger stick test that delivers results within minutes while a passenger is held at an airport. Taking the temperature of everyone coming to the U.S. would be a political, not a medical, intervention. Almost all passengers who have an elevated temperature will have the flu, an upper respiratory infection or something similar—but not Ebola."

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