Posted on 12/22/2014 7:24:26 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
Though it's taken a backseat to Ferguson and the Sony hacking story, the Ebola virus remains a threat in the United States.
According to Fox News Channel's investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who recently reached out to the Centers for Disease Control, the agency is still very much involved in monitoring individuals for the deadly African-borne virus. The problem, says Attkisson, is that the CDC is covering up the numbers, presumably to minimize panic across the United States.
Attkinson says that following the appointment of Ebola Czar Ron Klain, media involvement became almost non-existent because the government stopped releasing statistics and granting interviews in an effort to control the news.
The infectious disease experts I consulted were and remain very concerned about this because if it gets out of control in this country, we will not be able to deal with it.
A lot of the media coverage has gone from overtime to almost nothing since they appointed the Ebola Czar, and I don't think that's any accident I think it's a strategy.
There's a good argument to be made that things were made safer the reason we don't have a worst case scenario today as far as we know is because there was media coverage a public outcry that totally changed the way the government was handling the Ebola crisis
Once the Ebola Czar came in, they quit putting out the head of the CDC no more interviews. Someone decided, I think, when we give information they cover it. When we don't give information it will fall off the stage and it largely did.
I called CDC not long ago and asked how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of Ebola, and they said 1,400.
I said, 'where is that on your web site?' They said 'We're not putting it on the web.'
I think there is an effort to control the message and to tamp it down. This is public information and we have the right to know and I think the media should not hype it, but cover it.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/12/ebola-cover-cdc-monitoring-1400-active-cases-government-effort-control-message/#KJfcqDHfD9KEQdBW.99
"I called CDC not long ago and asked how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of Ebola, and they said 1,400.
"I said, 'where is that on your web site?' They said 'We're not putting it on the web.'
It is stunning how everyone does what Obama tells them to do.
Thus doesn’t pass my smell test. Why don’t you call the CDC and see if they tell you how many active Ebola cases they are monitoring in the US.
I doubt if they would tell you.
The Ebola czar is no longer in place. He stepped down a couple weeks ago.
There is absolutely no way that there are 1400 active cases of Ebola in the US.
Since the govt sucks completely at everything it tries to control, this secret cat-herding experiment is doomed to go wrong at some point if this is true. It’ll get ugly like Fast and Furious, Mooch’s lunch program, Unaffordable Healthcare, the IRS crapfest, Benghazi, etc., etc. It never ends because incompetence runs through it all like crap through a sewer pipe. It’s just a matter of time.
The headline does not match the story.
The story is BS.
They are most certainly NOT “active cases”.
They are people who, for the most part, have zero to 0.01% chance of exposure, who have been called in by an over excited ER or clinic.
Back in November, I got five calls a day like these.
There are FOUR US Ebola cases, with ZERO secondaries. Not on the stupid plane from Dallas to Cleveland to Dallas, not on the subway or in the stupid bowling alley, not in Newark or Fort Kent, Maine.
ZERO.
“It’s not to cover up minimize panic, it’s to minimize retaliation against the obola mis-administration.”
Do you have any idea what hispital all these 1400 Ameicans with Active Cases of Ebola could be?
How about why none of the friends or family of the 1400 Americans with Active Cases of Ebola are going to the media?
That’s a lot of people to be quiet. No family members are talking and no hispital workers are talking.
I do believe they are actively monitoring 1400 people at this time. 1400 confirmed cases? No way Jose’
Fortunately I've published this brochure for them:
Consoling Disease Concerns
[Direct Link]
They are following Congress’ example.
... Well, if I was with a major news outlet, they might. She claims they did. Guess you could call to confirm.
Im glad she is at Fox now
Not even close to a medically "active case" where someone is actually sick.
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I'm betting NONE. HYPE once again. According to some, my world was already supposed to be in great danger of ending by now....
About the same time, reporting on the disease went dark in the major media.
Numerous people were being monitored as at risk for having contracted the disease by virtue of travel to affected regions or close contact with others who had.
"Monitoring" is not the same as "treatment", and the word "cases" may be a poor choice, as most would not consider the individuals in question to be "cases" unless they had contracted the disease.
If they had contracted the disease, they would either be being treated or have resolved as recovered or dead, not merely be "monitored".
I have little doubt, with unrestrained traffic to the affected countries in Western Africa and military quarantines of only 21 days rather than the 42 to ensure confidence the person of interest had not contacted the disease, that there are at least 1400 people in the US being actively monitored for development of symptoms at any given time.
It is an unfortunate choice of words that gives the impression that there might be that many confirmed infected patients.
However, at this point, if there were, and the government could suppress that information, I have little faith they would not seek to do so.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the sanity. Hope it’s contagious.
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