Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

CNN.com ^ | 10/12/2014 | Cnn.com

[Drago]

Health care worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, hospital says in a statement.

[driftdiver]

The experts cannot email it because they don’t understand it.

But there’s nothing to worry about. /s

[driftdiver]

I don’t think the test can be done in 4 hours. There are also a lot 90 false negatives.

[kaila]

I would love it if one of those reporters would ask Freidan what the protocols for handling Ebola in the CDC labs are.

[wintertime]

How much could a disposable operating room cap cost? Pennies?

[tomkat]

Thanks .. unless I just overlooked it, that one needs to be on the sidebar somewhere

[devolve]

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- 1 —> =2

- 2 —> =4

- 4 —> =8

- 8 —> =16

- “Ebola is not a threat to America!” — Barack Hussein Obama (junior)

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[GeronL]

yes pennies, bought in bulk from China no doubt

check the alibaba site and see

[Jim Noble]

I would love it if one of those reporters would ask Freidan what the protocols for handling Ebola in the CDC labs are

Emory did not use the hospital lab, they set up a lab in their unit.

[Reagan0704]

Obama needs to be held responsible for this. People need to to speak up or a lot of us are going to die.

[dragnet2]

What a shock...

When do they quarantine Dallas?

[kaila]

What I meant was- how does the CDC/NIH protect their workers in their level 4 labs? Those protocols must be used to protect health care workers.They have strict protocols for decontamination, with showers, etc.
They have much lower risk of infection in a level 4 lab, because everything is contained behind a hood. If you are in the real world, such as a hospital, you have blood, diarrhea, a combative patient, all exposing the nurse to a higher risk.
Use biolevel 4 safety precautions, not the isolation protocols we use for the common flu in the hospital.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

You are probably right. Riding on the suits.

[Black Agnes]

Let me put it another way.

If level 2 protocols are all that’s needed, why is the CDC wasting so much taxpayer money with level 4 protocols...?

[kaila]

Because we are peons, and they are government workers.
A reporter should man up and ask these questions to that Obama quisling Freidan.

[tomkat]

Tho the frontline may eventually be everywhere, a most sincere Godspeed about now to all our healthcare FReepers !     d:^[

[tcrlaf]

Nobody has addressed the POTENTIAL CIVIL LIABILITY ISSUE at play here, and how it is going to effect responses.

[Liberty Valance]

bkmrk

[BradyLS]

ROTF_LMAO_4_60sec

[Ready4Freddy]

Thanks you, kaila!

[DoughtyOne]

What are the nine most dangerous words right now?

We're from the CDC, and we're here to help.


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