Wit. We have breaking news to share. One of the patient with the deadly ebola virus has arrived in the states. He will be taken to Emory University hospital. Atlantas Emory University hospital says it is prepared to treat him in a specially designed unit for those with highly Infectious Diseases. With a good day to you, walk us through what happens now that his plane has landed. Now that the plane has landed, alex, dr. Ken brantly will be loaded into an ambulance, which will be accompanied by Law Enforcement. It will make its way through the Atlanta Metro city center before arriving here at Emory University hospital. Dr. Brantly will be rushed up to the specialty Isolation Unit. It is one of just four in the country. And was developed in partnership with the cdc, which is located just down the road here. Once inside that Isolation Unit, he will be given Supportive Care for his illness. It is the doctors goal to keep his body going so he can develop these antibodies to fight the antivir
Here, bureaucracy and human error had alarming consequences. The hospital that let an infected man go home is blaming software that failed to alert doctors even though he told an er nurse he had been in liberia. Red tape stopped them from getting the permits to clean the apartment where he had been staying and a family of Young Children has been quarantined for days. I am joined by tom skinner, Senior Press Officer at the centers for Disease Control in atlanta. Thanks very much. Me how cdc and dallas are coordinating. There have been a lot of missteps in dallas in particular. What does cdc think about the way the local officials handled it. We have a team on the ground pretty much working 247 to do everything that we can to stop this in its tracks and thats just what we are doing. We are trying to identify the close contacts of the patient and intrude close to 100 people trying to determine the close contacts. We identified probably a dozen or so that are likely to have to be followed
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