Few states score well on infection readiness

Despite improvements over the past 10 years, America's health system is still not ready either for infectious disease emergencies or for the day-to-day business of preventing illness, a new report says. The "troubling and persistent gaps" were laid bare by the recent cases of Ebola, according to Jeffrey Levi, PhD, executive director of the Washington-based Trust for America's Health."It was very disturbing that many of the most basic infectious disease controls failed when tested," Levi told reporters as he released Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014.