Posted on 10/15/2014 9:11:00 PM PDT by blam
October 15, 2014
FoxNews.com
The second nurse infected with Ebola at a Dallas hospital after treating a man who later died of the virus was flown by private jet Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for further treatment in a specialized isolation unit.
The patient was identified earlier in the day as 29-year-old Amber Vinson as authorities expressed concern that she took a domestic flight — reportedly to prepare for her wedding in Cleveland — just one day before coming down with symptoms of the deadly disease.
"The second health care worker should not have been allowed to travel by virtue of being in an exposed group," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telebriefing Wednesday. "Although she had no symptoms or fever [that met the threshold] of 100.4, she did report that she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5."
Vinson, who like Nina Pham is a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, went to the hospital displaying symptoms of the disease on Tuesday morning, after taking a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Monday night. Federal health officials are now tracking down all of Vinson's fellow passengers, the CDC said Wednesday.
Helicopter footage from local Atlanta television stations showed Vinson leaving a jet after the flight from Dallas and being helped into an ambulance Wednesday night. A police motorcade escorted the ambulance as it traveled to Emory University Hospital, which has already treated three Americans diagnosed with the virus.
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99.5 for some people is normal. varying by one degree either way is the normal temperature range for people.
i run about 1 degree lower than average.
Freiden is a regular rocket scientist.
I wonder how long before a celebrity gets Obola. This $#!t is getting scarey. I gotta go to Denver next week from Dallas, and I’m driving.
I would have No fear if it were not for the glaring incompetence.
Won’t the race baiters be upset over this one, since they are flying the dark colored one to a premier hospital while keeping the other in the same hospital where she became infected?
Why didn’t they immediately fly Duncan home to Liberia as soon as they confirmed he had Ebola?
I’m usually in the high 97s, along with my mother, except for two years when I was at 100.5 or so.
did the CDC just make transport to one of the hand full of special isolation units standard of care ( 4 hospitals about 20 beds total for US)?
Clinically, we don’t consider it a fever unless it’s above 100.4 orally.
The weaseling by the CDC by the CDC now does nothing but add confusion.
Do the screeners now stop people from Liberia with a temp of 99.4 from flying?
What about 99.0?
And is the standard in the US now any healthcare worker who takes care of an Ebola patient now banned from flying for 21 days?
Are they banned from other activities, going to the gym, movies.
What exactly are the guidelines?
those long distance crowd temp takers in africa aren’t that precise.
There are quite a few cases scattered in Europe we're not hearing much about.
I wouldn't want to take a chance on being infected at any stage of the disease, from exposure to good or bad outcome. No it has to be true, they talk about viral load, and the more the disease progresses the larger the viral load or I think one article called it titer. Anyway, just before death and dead bodies are the most contagious.
Who is "they" ? The government that is incompetent? The President who doesn't answer the phone, at 3am or at 3pm? The CDC boss who is dealing in assurances that "it can't happen here" while the medical personnel wears insufficient protection and has no way to dispose of biohazard waste?
Besides, Liberia has a right to prohibit landing of the airplane with such a patient. They simply won't approve the flight.
I read that the nurses in Dallas threatened to walk off the job if Vinson was admitted there. Not sure if that’s the truth, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon if it is.
She was only flown to Georgia because she is black.
Meanwhile the Asian woman doesn’t get the trip there.
Absolutely. I thought the same.
Barclay Berdan the CEO of Texas Health Resources, the company that owns Texas Health Presbyterian has contributed to the campaign of Chet Edwards, DemonRAT, onetime "representative" of the Texas 17th district. That pretty much explains his mindset.
Wednesday night Megyn Kelly reported that the CDC gave this woman clearance to fly to Cleveland even though they knew she had an elevated temperature..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215671/posts
I was shocked that the CDC OK’d her boarding. I was shocked that a nurse would leave Dallas.
But you probably haven’t been exposed to Ebola.
It sounds like the nurse was doing exactly what they told her to do, take her temperature a couple of times a day, and when she saw a change, she did what they told her to do: called them to report it. She even asked if she should travel and they told her to go ahead, although they knew she had been exposed because she had treated Duncan and therefore even a slight fever was significant.
It was, as usual, the CDC that fell down on this one, with their false assurances and negligence.
She's a nurse.... she should have known the right thing to do.
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