“We need to have more than just the four [units] in which you have people who are pre-trained"

“We need to have more than just the four [units] in which you have people who are pre-trained, so that you don’t come in, and then that’s the first time you start thinking about it,” Fauci said. “It can’t just be four. We may not even need any more, and we hope we don’t.”

“But in case there are more cases, we want to make sure we have people who are pre-trained, pre-drilled over and over, and have the right protocol going.”

The four locations with biocontainment units specially equipped to handle infectious diseases are Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana and the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. With current staffing capabilities, the four units can handle a combined total of 11 patients.