Wednesday 1 October 2014

The cost of ebola

CNN is giving its customary wall-to-wall coverage to the news that a man in a Texas hospital has been diagnosed with ebola.  He was turned away from the hospital when he presented himself showing symptoms, even though he told the nurse he had recently arrived from Liberia.  He was only admitted when he arrived again in an ambulance several days later, much more seriously ill.

How, Wolf and Anderson are asking, could this possibly have happened?

Well, here's one possibility.  The poor man is a Liberian national.  If he couldn't make it past the triage nurse, could it have been because his credit card was found wanting?

Hope I'm wrong.

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