Its quite common for a hospital to take an extremely sick patient, and promptly inform ABC and CBS as to what patient came in for and what his condition is or might be?

Is this the government's notion of ensuring calm of the citizens and proving protocols exist in an emergency.

Something smells with all of these reports? Are we going to start having "breaking news" every time a person has the Norovirus? I believe there are something like 20 million cases a year.

Maybe they are creating this hype now, so they can be politically correct to shut down the airlines?