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Those are labs, and there's some surge capability, that count of 15 either includes some that can move to BSL4, or there are a few that can do that.

There are 4 hospitals in the nation that have a total of less than 20 beds that are set up for diseases like this. Emory (CDC), the NIH in Bethesda, the biggest with 10 beds is in Omaha, Nebraska, and there's one in Missoula, Montana, not far from one of those BSL4 labs.



Ah, it turns out we have a grand total of 23 hospital beds nation wide in theory qualified for Ebola:

3 at Emory: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2005/July/July%2...

3 in Montana, and they've never used them or put their protocols to the test: http://missoulian.com/news/local/st-patrick-hospital-of-site...

7 at the NIH, and it sounds like they've gotten some use: http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/translational-research-resourc...

As mentioned before, 10 in Nebraska, and they don't have a BSL-4 lab handy; hopefully they have, or are setting up, a mini-lab there, for as Emory realized, it's not practical to send samples from Ebola patients to the hospital's main lab: http://www.nebraskamed.com/biocontainment-unit




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