First, 21 days is not enough. If the average incubation time is 21 days as the CDC claims, some people will show symptoms in 18 days, others will not show symptoms for 24 days. The quarantine should be 30 days. After all, the purpose of the quarantine is to protect the public.
Second, the state of New Jersey should put armed guards outside where the crew is being held with orders to shoot to kill anyone who emerges from the place of quarantine. If anyone on the crew dies, blood samples should be taken and then the body must be cremated.
Incubation time is 2 to 21 days. Not average, that’s the time spread. By the end of that if you’ve got it you’ll test positive. If they know to put you under quarantine it’s not about symptoms it’s about blood tests.
lol, okay then why don’t we have a TV crew outside the house so they can broadcast the killing as infotainment. Fortunately it will be the State of New Jersey handling this so I’m sure no one will screw this up. /sarc
The median incubation is 5-6 days. At 21 days there is a relatively small chance that the person was infected.
21 days is more than enough for jerks like Thomas Duncan to get himself a plane ticket to the US..
Too bad the bad systems dont show up in mere hours not weeks...
Duncan knew that he was sick or could be BEFORE he even left Liberia...
He was OKed to get on the plane after going through a screening, where he lied like the cowardly dog he was...
someone on FOX this morning suggested that the people wanting to leave West African countries be put in quarantine for 21 days THERE and then if nothing has developed they can get on a plane..
(Of course some liberal ijit said oh noez the African countries cant afford to quarantine anyone but we have the funds to do so here...)
of course there are always some carrier of the disease who could show up at quarantine when the guy was leaving or a few days before and pass it onto him anyway...
Theres no proof that just because a person who was exposed doesn’t get sick they are not a carrier...
those people in quarantine would use the same areas..
150 people arrive in the US every day..
for 21 days that’s 3,000+ people you have to quarantine somewhere ...plus all the rest who are fleeing here ...some of them are going to be in the same building and in the same rooms...
The mean incubation period was estimated to be 12.7 days (standard deviation 4.31 days), indicating that about 4.1% of patients may have incubation periods longer than 21 days.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766904/
First, 21 days is not enough. If the average incubation time is 21 days as the CDC claims, some people will show symptoms in 18 days, others will not show symptoms for 24 days. The quarantine should be 30 days. After all, the purpose of the quarantine is to protect the public.