I am imagining Obama eulogizing at a funeral with a large number of caskets, trying to comfort the nation in his job at president, with everyone in the country fully aware that this funeral and the others like it were 100% preventable by him.
Posted on 10/12/2014 2:40:49 AM PDT by Drago
Health care worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, hospital says in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yikes!
excuse my language, but how in the **** are the hospital personnel contracting this while supposedly in protective gear but Duncan’s family is not infected while interacting unprotected with his bodily fluids????
Hopefully this was from the first visit where Ebola was not considered and no isolation techniques were used. However, either way this will have a chilling effect on those of us on the front lines......
I agree, the family will soon show up with symptoms or the government is lying. I dont see any other way around it.
I wonder if this was the intake nurse? or?
Are the Duncan relatives being blood-tested? They should be showing symptoms soon.
There are ample photos of people not fully suited up, people not suited up at all, people fully suited up but gaps exposing skin at the neck, etc. working with patients presumed to be symptomatic.
It’s been very discouraging. I’m not sure what part of “no exposed skin” is being misunderstood or if people are no longer capable of grasping the implications, but it’s so, I’ve been watching the whole train wreck.
Good question but I think it is still too early to say they weren’t infected. We may learn different in the next week or so.
Incubation period is 2 thru 21 days or so, with the most showing symptoms at about 4-14 days after exposure. I’ll have to look up the date when Mr. Duncan first started showing symptoms. The family/roommates may still be at risk. Not to mention the original paramedics the “power wash” guy, etc., etc.
I am imagining Obama eulogizing at a funeral with a large number of caskets, trying to comfort the nation in his job at president, with everyone in the country fully aware that this funeral and the others like it were 100% preventable by him.
A. Could be from the ER where he exposed people before his diagnosis.
B. No protective measures are perfect.
C. And most troubling, we don’t know everything about this disease.
Either way I suspect we will start to see a much higher no show rate for nurses, CNA’s and EVS. Particularly if there is a known case of Ebola in the community. We need to figure out how to staff and take care of patients with this new reality. And with flu season fast approaching as well. This could be the event that breaks our health care system
so now its been a week or more since he had been admitted. Will they have to monitor another 100 people? more? She go to a movie or get on a bus? Are we up to 500 yet?
There was an early report that the CDC precaution was not enough.
That volunteer health workers over in the areas of Western Africa were getting infected even though they were using safety measures not to expose their bodies to “blood” and other liquids.
What they did not take into account was the fact the coughing and sneezing will send out small minute particles laced with Ebola into the immediate air and those very health care workers were ingesting them through normal bleeding...
Not all things are equal when dealing with a persistent virus. Then again, this disease should have never appeared in the US at all.
The fact that it is here under Obama - is a telling fact of what a complete failure he is when upholding his oath to every US citizen! (We all know that he doesn’t care about the US or her citizens!)
Yep, “contract tracking” just got a whole lot bigger/harder.
This is what you get with the ideology driven commie-crats in control of the levers of power.
I still can't believe the RINOs who've been in charge are campaigning against constitutional conservatives instead of against democrats
Texas DSHS press release on the new ebola patient: https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/news/releases/20141012.aspx
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