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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She called the CDC several times and each time they assured her it was fine because her temperature was not out of the normal range. What was she supposed to do? Hire her own plane to take her straight to Atlanta?
Sorry, but this is all at the feet of the CDC, which has been too busy worrying about gun control (while the WHO has been worrying about caffeine energy drinks and tobacco!) to get serious about disease. If this disease hadn’t started in Africa - thereby becoming something politically sacred that we should actually all want to get - maybe the response would have been better, but I doubt it.
The nurses seem to have followed the protocols, but they were completely inadequate, and follow-up has been completely inadequate. I was blaming the hospital at first, but it seems that they in turn were simply doing what they were told to do by the supposed experts, whose whole job is to minimize and hide this disease so it can’t cause any political damage to Obama.
I hear you, but the fact that she took her temperature indicates that she thought something was wrong with her. Add the fact that she had treated an Ebola patient, and the CDC should have immediately quarantined her. Sorry, but you’ve got to stop this in its tracks.
It was just reported that she's going to Maryland. The Odumbo administration wants to make sure that there is no part of the country untouched.
She’s going to NIH, which has a Biolevel 4 containment isolation room. She will have access to experimental drugs there, and possibly a dose of ZMAPP.
Thanks for that info.
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