After Years of Empty Beds, Containment Team Puts Drills to Use

NE: The New York Times: OMAHA — There have been times when Dr. Philip Smith felt pressed to justify the existence of the biocontainment unit he opened almost a decade ago in an empty wing of Nebraska Medical Center. After all, the unit’s 10 beds sat empty for years, its team of specially trained doctors and nurses leaping into action only for periodic drills.

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