If you evacuate these patients, many of whom are on oxygen, many of whom are on feeder tubes, many of whom won't survive the evacuation, many of those people are going to die.

All of the oxygen was sucked out of the room.

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

If you pull that trigger too soon (on evacuation) those people are going to die.

If you pull that trigger too soon those people are going to die.

At the end of the day, what my folks did to try to rescue these folks was nothing short of 100 percent heroic. The idea that the owners abandoned these folks is absolutely not true.