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Being American is a possible reason because the Americans tend to get more attention in America. White has nothing to do with it though. There is no evidence of that. Get over your hangups.


It was an American pharmaceutical company.

And the CDC was the one coordinating this trial.

I think it's perfectly reasonable that they were able to get clearance to use two American citizens as their test subjects.

Imagine the outrage if we'd picked two foreigners, and the trial had gone south (it still could, touch wood).

Besides, these were two American citizens who flew to Africa to help Ebola victims, risking their lives. I certainly don't begrudge them.


You might have a point if they were treated in America

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-soon-can-a-vaccine-or-treatm...

> Last week, several vials of an experimental drug serum called ZMAPP were transported to Liberia from the NIH in an effort to treat two American aid workers with Ebola.

Two of the doctors I linked died in Liberia.


And then the patients were put in a US plane with US staff and flown to a US hospital next to the US CDC, all paid for by a US charity. There they will be monitored by the US trained doctors, meanwhile feeding information back to the US based company that invented the drug, which is manufactured on US soil.

This has nothing to do with them being doctors and everything to do with them being American. Sorry, it's not an insane conspiracy, it's just the way the system works. You keep pointing it out - but we all already get it. There is a different standard when it comes to American vs non-Americans in the situation.

The important question is whether or not the drug works. Because if it does, you can bet your ass people are going to try and get as much as of it to the affected countries as possible. If we made a stockpile of the wonder drug and withheld it from Africa, then you would have a point. Until then, cross your fingers like the rest of us that this will work.




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