American health care workers who contracted Ebola while fighting the epidemic in Liberia were airlifted out of Liberia, back to the U. S. for medical care (you saw them briefly in the video). They were given a highly experimental treatment, which had previously only been tested on monkeys. No human trials had yet been utilized to test the effectiveness of the treatment. The experimental treatment was successful and the health care workers survived. 

• Should the American health care workers have been airlifted out of Liberia when others were not?
• Should they have been given a highly experimental treatment?
• Since the treatment was successful, should the thousands of Africans with Ebola also be treated?

Yes, they are American citizens who were sent to the frontline by their government. This means that the American government has responsibility over them. Each government has responsibility for its citizens. Airlifting the hundreds of infected health workers out of Liberia would have proved costly for the American government. It was then fair enough for each government to shoulder its own cost of airlifting and catering for treatment for its healthcare workers.

The American government was right to give them the highly experimental treatment. There is always a first time for everything. Sooner or later, the treatment would have been experimented on human beings, so the American government experimenting the treatment on the healthcare workers was right. Also, the two healthcare workers offered a small sample size which meant if the treatment flopped not many would have been affected. Furthermore, the healthcare workers understood fully the risks associated with the highly experimental treatment. There training as healthcare workers accorded them firsthand information of the risks and dangers of the highly experimental treatment.

If the treatment was successful on the doctors, then it should then be tried on the Liberian population to confirm if it's really successful. There is no need for thousands of Africans suffering when there is a treatment that can be offered to them. The small sample size has already shown success; this means the treatment should now be moved to the larger sample. The second reason is the two healthcare workers are a really small sample and also considering the fact the doctors must have been treated in a highly controlled environment. Considering the treatment success is not right, it should be released and used to treat the thousand of those infected with Ebola to consider it successful. The African continent does not offer the luxuries of a controlled environment.