A little bit more from the 'as a trained professional' side... It's not a matter of coming 'home' in terms of seeing family. It's a matter of coming 'home' where the facilities are up to providing the support you need to attempt survival against the disease, without fear of your supplies getting looted or your caretakers murdered, or your room set on fire (with you in it) by paranoid mobs. They have an awareness of the risks, yes, but the fact of the matter is that they were motivated to help in those areas because the conditions are BAD in the first place, and are not going to magically improve simply because it happens to be a doctor that got sick. The field facilities are understaffed and undersupplied. Many of the local assistants are just simply not showing up, leaving the foreign volunteers to take on more work in stifling heat, which affects their judgment. There is nothing to keep those same local assistants from just not showing up at the hospitals either once patients arrive there. There have been some rumors that the gear is being reused in the field -- but even if that is the case, there is enough going around that there is a GOOD chance that they may have been exposed while even not working directly with patients (and thus not wearing the protective equipment). He had already turned down serum to give to the other sick volunteer. I certainly would be thinking 'my chances are better in Europe or in the States, and the risk of me getting /others/ sick is LOWER than if I stayed here'. Also, as a trained professional, he has a great advantage over the average patient -- the role of PATIENT COMPLIANCE and PATIENT AWARENESS when it comes to interacting with his caretakers. He is in a coherent enough state that he can help prevent exposure to his attending healthcare workers, and minimize his own spread.
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