The New Yorker Ebola and the fiction of quarantine Amid heated debate, the Ebola virus came to the United States on Saturday, August 2, 2014, aboard a Gulfstream jet chartered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus was carried in the bloodstream of Doctor Kent Brantly, who travelled within an Aeromedical Biological Containment System—a hermetically sealed, transparent plastic tent that isolated […]
What would happen if someone got Ebola in America? Let’s get one thing straight: You are not going to get Ebola. Donald Trump is not going to get Ebola. You are more likely to be killed by Batman, the ride. Ebola-like viruses have already breached our borders, and there were no secondary infections. There are airport workers whose job it is to identify passengers […]