The nurse, however, wasn't "under quarantine." Only the family members were quarantined.

Presumably the ICU team was not quarantined because first, they'd been wearing protective gear, and second, as professionals they could be relied on to monitor their temperatures and report any symptoms.

Which is precisely what they did.

Of a reported seventy members of the team, only two fell ill, even with inadequate protective equipment.

*Sixty-eight* are fine. Of course, there's still some time left in the incubation period, but it seems unlikely at this point that even one more person in the monitored group will get sick. It would be tragic if anyone did, but it would still be far from an "Ebola outbreak in America."

Meanwhile, a school in Maine has been closed because a teacher went to Dallas and stayed at a hotel ten miles from the hospital.

The real story, beside the apparent unpreparedness, is the *heroism* of the team that did everything in their power, under horrible conditions, to save Thomas Duncan's life. Two heroic nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, are suffering terribly for it now.

They could have said they weren't going near him.

And the bigger story, of course, is that the world needs to make sure Ebola is stopped in West Africa before it really can cause outbreaks elsewhere. Anyone treating an Ebola patient is a real hero in my book.