17 American passengers aboard hantavirus-hit cruise ship will quarantine in Nebraska

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22. But that "old enough to remember" thing might mean something else

because that original "Ebola nurse" fiasco happened during the Obama administration in 2014 (before 45), where Chris Crispy Creme was the one who freaked out, detaining an asymptomatic nurse in NJ, who had been treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, before returning to the U.S. to head home to Maine. She settled her lawsuit in 2017.

There was a parallel case in TX the same month where a nurse contracted the disease from a patient, and where the hospital had no corresponding protocols for adequate protection. That nurse settled her suit in 2016.

This mess prompted Obama to get all the various stakeholders together to come up with a plan on how to deal with these types of infectious diseases in the future. It was called -

PLAYBOOK FOR EARLY RESPONSE TO HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE THREATS AND BIOLOGICAL INCIDENTS

(a/k/a the "Pandemic Playbook" ).

There had been all kinds of protocols put in place after the Anthrax "attacks" and subsequent "white powder in letters and packages" incidents in 2001, but nothing for hazardous communicable diseases

That document was issued internally in 2016, where when offered to the incoming 45 administration, it was promptly thrown in the trash.