Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

U.S. hospitals are ridden with mistakes. Common infections like C. diff and staph rage through hospitals because doctors and nurses sometimes forget even the basic protocol: washing hands. I've been an advocate for patient safety for over a decade, and I know that hospitals unable to stop these infections can't stop Ebola. To claim they can is a lie.

Many hospitals also lack equipment. Texas Health nurses relied on facemasks, which is what the CDC prescribes. But other experts say they should have respirators. Epidemiologists at the University of Illinois explain that Ebola "has the potential to be transmitted through aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that health-care workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks." CDC and Emory University staff wore respirators when they cared for two health-care workers evacuated from Africa. Some health-care professionals even complain they see a double standard in the CDC's protocols.

Not that respirators guarantee safety. Even with them, says Johns Hopkins' nurse Trish Perl, "the physical exhaustion and emotional fatigue that come with caring for patients infected with Ebola increase the chance of an inadvertent exposure to bodily fluids" when removing gear.

National Nurses United is protesting the lack of equipment and training. Eighty-five percent of nurses surveyed by NNU said they hadn't received Ebola training. Then, there's the lack of staff. It takes 20 full-time medical staff to care for one Ebola patient. Texas Health cordoned off its ICU for Ebola and is diverting emergency patients to other hospitals. Not all communities have several hospitals.

Frieden is falsely claiming hospitals are ready in order to bolster the policy of his boss, President Obama, who refuses to suspend travel visas from affected countries. But how many American lives should be put at risk for the sake of political correctness? Frieden says Ebola won't spread "widely" here. That's a weasel word. Even one nurse facing death is too many.