More evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MUST take charge of all screenings of travelers coming into U.S. Airports of Entry emerged in the last few days. Nurses returning from Africa reported that they were treated like prisoners and that officials were rude and insulting to them when questioning was going underway. And the screenings were not done correctly.
These are Americans who risked their lives to save others and they deserve to be treated with the utmost respect, while at the same time ensuring that they are not sick.
There has to be a way to respect Constitutional protections while isolating those who need to be isolated. The answer is probably in better Ebola detection testing. Waiting 21 days to learn if someone is going to come down with Ebola is too slow.
We need a test that shows the presence of Ebola in a test subject within a matter of an hour or two at most, at any point during the incubation period.
CDC needs to be on point NOW.
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