Posted on 10/15/2014 11:29:40 AM PDT by jimbo123
Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records.
The 3-day window of Sept. 28-30 is now being targeted by investigators for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the key time during which health care workers may have been exposed to the deadly virus by Duncan, who died Oct. 8 from the disease.
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Wow, that was 2 plus weeks ago.
Interesting how all of the reporting and “official” response has been that the nurse was not careful enough, somehow she, personally, had breached protocol. Poor scapegoat woman. I hope she lives a long life, and is able to sue the hospital for putting her at risk this way.
Oh my.
I’d bet he Shysters are lining up to have a field day, and rightfully so.
Makes you wonder what else is not taken seriously at this hospital.
I’m stunned. This hospital was being run by absolute freakin’ idiots.
He hadn’t tested positive yet.
This whole failure to prevent travel is designed to bankrupt the hospitals.
Imagine if they have to provide care for every single suspected ebola or flu patient wearing *fresh* ppe for every single one every single time.
They won’t be purchasing anything else but ppe...
In their defense, they may not have had any idea he had Ebola.
They may have simply thought he had some other ailment.
You would think health care workers would have been warned to be on the look out for, but it seems even the CDC got caught flat footed in some instances.
The people going into the homes of some of these people didn’t have protective gear either, and they knew what they were dealing with.
Well The President told them it was safe, and you can only get it through transfer of bodily fluids.
I smell a major lawsuit ! (if they live)
Unbelievably stupid of the hospital … the brain rot there involves everyone from the janitor to the medical director to the president of THR Resources, the nonprofit company that owns and operates it.
Texas Health Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Health_Resources
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My wife talked to a black nurse this morning and she said everyone at Kelsey Seybold is worried and that they don’t have the gear or training to deal with ebola. She also said she believes this is part of Agenda 21. Must be a conspiracy nut conservative. (That’s why I mentioned her race.)
Seriously, it shows me more people are paying attention that I thought. And that’s good.
Did *anybody* do *anything* RIGHT in Dallas? Was there ONE thing that was done properly? One. I’m just looking for one, here.
Just think of all the people than ran into from the hospital, to the gym, to the grocery store, the restaurant, etc....
We need to get on our knees and ask the good Lord for forgiveness first, and then help deliver us from this evil.
And the nurses went from Duncan to other patients who had family members visiting, and food service personnel bringing their meals.
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