Morning Break: Ebola Waste Piles Up, EHRs Held Hostage

Waste haulers have been unwilling to collect Ebola-tainted linens and gear from U.S. hospitals, citing federal guidelines requiring hazmat training to perform the task, Reuters reported -- sending staff at Emory University Hospital, which treated two patients with the disease, "to Home Depot to buy as many 32-gallon rubber waste containers with lids that they could get their hands on."
A new CDC worst-case-scenario report projected 21,000 cases of Ebola by the end of September, and 1.4 million by January 2015. The agency's best-case-scenario was far more optimistic.
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