REPORT: At Least One Ebola Patient Is Headed To Atlanta Hospital
There is no word yet on when the patient will arrive, but it is expected that he or she will be treated in the hospital's wards that are specifically set up to treat highly infectious diseases.
The "hospital has a specially-built isolation unit to treat patients exposed to certain serious infectious diseases," Misty Williams wrote in the AJC. "Set up in collaboration with the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the unit is physically separate from other patient areas and is one of only four such facilities in the country."
According to Vaughn Sterling of CNN, Medevac will actually be picking up more than one American Ebola patient in Liberia.
A CBS/Associated Press report from earlier in the day noted that "the U.S. is looking into Medevac options to bring two American aid workers diagnosed with Ebola back to the U.S.," citing White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest as the source.
This story is developing.