dr. william schaaper in, chairman department of preventable medicine from vanderbilt and dr.d sanders from purdue university. we would like to hear from you both this morning. what is your confidence level when it comes to how prepared u.s. hospitals are to treat an ebola patient if it were to go to them? >> actually, i'm very confident. and if anything, this event in dallas has given all hospitals once again a wakeup call and has been a lesson. hospitals are out there reviewing their infection control policies and procedures. they're training their personnel in how to use the protective gear that we would employ in the context of an ebola patient. and we're conducting drills. we at vanderbilt have had a fake ebola patient come in to our emergency room and then transferred to our intensive care unit. we all took notes during the process. you always learn something during drills. and so hospitals, even those in relatively remote areas now took a lesson from dallas and said, you know, that could happen here. so i think we're all increasingly aware and able to manage such patien