Posted on 10/16/2014 3:20:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Though there is no plan yet to move all Ebola patients to specialized biocontainment facilities, only seven spots at these facilities remain open in the United States.
There are four hospitals with biocontainment facilities in the United States, and they have 11 beds that can be used at any one time for Ebola patients, officials told ABC News. Four of those beds are currently being occupied by Ebola patients.
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Probably an excellent idea. The dry heat and sunshine will help sterilize stray virus.
and the mold on the green baloney can protect them from viruses
Sadly, I believe you will be proven correct.
I’m hesitant about setting up a facility anywhere on the mainland. There must be no possibility for escape. That’s why I suggested islands. Really this is not a new problem - in the 1800’s immigrants had to spend time in quarantine on Ellis Island before they were allowed in the US.
no disagreement
I just tested it: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-capacity-11-ebola-patients-specialized-hospitals/story?id=26251721
Got it. Thanks
I keep reading that four of the beds are occupied. Vinson, Pham, and the NBC Cameraman are three. Who is the fourth?
They are keeping a few spots empty for “Important People”
Us rubes are SOL
Exactly, who is the fourth? Another secret or lie from our government? Maybe why they’re scrambling?
Even so, that’s still not the correct number. Everytime there’s an article, the number at each and the total keeps changing. WHY is that, huh??? Below are the number of beds from either their websites or researching it over the past couple weeks. The last two days, they’ve not included Ft. Detrick which is very telling. IMO, that means they’re saving those for our military who will be bringing it back. There are at least 22 civilian beds.
Isolation Unit Beds:
2 - Emory, Atlanta.
3 - The Care and Isolation Unit in Missoula, Montana, opened in 2005 by the National Institutes of Health to serve lab workers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, hasn’t yet served an infectious disease patient, only a handful with tuberculosis or contagious bacterial infections. The rooms look like everyday hospital rooms—white, sterile, a TV and window for entertainment. That’s because St. Patrick Hospital retrofitted three of its ICU rooms to make the unit.
10 – Omaha, Nebraska Medical Center run twice yearly drills with decontamination at their hospital’s 10-bed biocontainment unit. Opened in 2005. Has never had an infectious disease patient. Prior to Dr. Sacra in Sept., the unit had only briefly housed one patient with malaria five years ago. Malaria does not require quarantine.
7 - NIH opened a seven-bed Special Clinical Studies Unit at the Clinical Research Center in Bethesda to replace it. Its four patient rooms (two doubles and a single). Bethesda unit has only served a patient with a drug-resistant bacterial illness. “It can handle the highest level of respiratory virus, but Ebola isn’t even spread that way,” said Richard Davey, deputy clinical director of NIH’s Division of Clinical Research.
? - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) – Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
I see no news articles on Pham's boyfriend more recent than two days ago. He might be the fourth. Has anyone seen a recent follow-up on his case?
http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-sheet-index/ebola-virus.aspx
RISK GROUP CLASSIFICATION: Risk Group 4 (38). CONTAINMENT REQUIREMENTS: Containment Level 4 facilities, equipment, and operational practices for work involving infectious or potentially infectious materials, animals, and cultures.
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING: Personnel entering the laboratory must remove street clothing, including undergarments, and jewellery, and change into dedicated laboratory clothing and shoes, or don full coverage protective clothing (i.e., completely covering all street clothing). Additional protection may be worn over laboratory clothing when infectious materials are directly handled, such as solid-front gowns with tight fitting wrists, gloves, and respiratory protection. Eye protection must be used where there is a known or potential risk of exposure to splashes (39).
OTHER PRECAUTIONS: All activities with infectious material should be conducted in a biological safety cabinet (BSC) in combination with a positive pressure suit, or within a class III BSC line. Centrifugation of infected materials must be carried out in closed containers placed in sealed safety cups, or in rotors that are unloaded in a biological safety cabinet. The integrity of positive pressure suits must be routinely checked for leaks. The use of needles, syringes, and other sharp objects should be strictly limited. Open wounds, cuts, scratches, and grazes should be covered with waterproof dressings. Additional precautions should be considered with work involving animal activities (39).
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISINFECTANTS: Ebola virus is susceptible to sodium hypochlorite, lipid solvents, phenolic disinfectants, peracetic acid, methyl alcohol, ether, sodium deoxycholate, 2% glutaraldehyde, 0.25% Triton X-100, β-propiolactone, 3% acetic acid (pH 2.5), formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, and detergents such as SDS (20, 21, 31-34).
BOTTOM LINE: 150 Hot Zone citizens are entering the US each and every day or 3,150 every week. We have room for 11 patients who at any one time can be taken care of at a "Containment Level 4" facility. Obola, you do the math.
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