And this is why we may yet see more cases of Ebola out of Texas Presbyterian:

Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records.

The 3-day window of Sept. 28-30 is now being targeted by investigators for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the key time during which health care workers may have been exposed to the deadly virus by Duncan, who died Oct. 8 from the disease.

Duncan was suspected of having Ebola when he was admitted to a hospital isolation unit Sept. 28, and he developed projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea later that day, according to medical records his family turned over to The Associated Press.

You think there ought to be lawsuits over all this? You’re damned right - the hospital screwed up every which way imaginable, starting with the assumption that it wasn’t Ebola (whether from the initial contact or even upon admission). They waited two days before the case was confirmed as Ebola, rather than operating under the assumption that it was.

If they operated under the assumption it was Ebola, they’d reduce the chances staffers could contract the disease, but at a higher cost of care.

If they operated under the assumption it wasn’t Ebola - even after he fell into all the risk factor categories - the hospital would increase the chances others would contract the disease, but saving money in the interim.

Which do you think the hospital chose.

I can’t wait to learn what the mortality/morbidity conferences from this hospital are going to look like, let alone the lawsuits from Duncan’s family on down to the nurses and staffers potentially exposed because the hospital chose the path of least cost - assuming that it wasn’t Ebola.