As for Dallas, the plural of anecdote is not data. We just don't know yet; for example, in 1st World conditions where IV saline etc. are standard, the death rate may be well below the 70% currently estimated in West Africa. Although your points about the Dallas Ebola Magnet Hospital of Excellence's, are correct: while following the then current CDC "protocols" (scare quotes since the CDC and others invested so much into their sanctity vs. health care workers following them), were inadequate, e.g. no neck coverage.

Heck, look at the standard Bellevue Hospital PPE picture that's been floating around for many days, e.g. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/bellevue-hospit... Based on what we suspect the person on the right would stand a serious chance of getting Ebola, and that's no longer the protocol.

Or look at this gem from the U.K. press: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2805930/Should-Offic...

You don't suppose there's some environmental, population density, etc. differences that might make NYC's experience different than Dallas'?

My main takeaways were (starting 25 minutes in): - There's a lot we don't know, especially about the current strain

- He's heard of patients that did not have a fever through the entire infection

- There have been incidents/experiments where we do not understand how ebola, this strain in particular, passed between animals