Posted on 10/16/2014 6:29:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws
An emergency room nurse who treated a fellow nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Dallas is taking time off and retained a noted Fort Lauderdale plaintiffs firm rather than return to work.
Briana Aguirre, 30, contacted Robert W. Kelley of the Kelley/Uustal firm after concluding Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was not adequately protecting staff from the lethal virus, Kelley said.
With Kelley by her side, Aguirre was interviewed Thursday by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today Show." She told Lauer the biohazard outfits given to nurses left a 3-inch gap below the chin that potentially allowed contaminated fluid to travel to the mouth and nose.
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1. The CDC was present and giving instructions for the PPE (personal protective equipment) to be worn;
2. There were changes made along the way in what to wear;
3. At no time did it included neck protection and she asked specifically about this area being exposed; and
4. Two weeks later and there was still no neck protection. (We saw the CDC director tell Megyn at Fox that it wasn't necessary.)
This is a HUGE ignored bit of news. The nurse didn't blast just her hospital. The CDC was the one there carrying the ball.
Frieden and Obama said that ANY hospital could handle this.
They own this mess and any deaths which may come.
And NOW it begins!
Sometimes I regret not going to law school.
The CDC Knowingly put their lives at risk. I would sue too.
At this point I think all lawsuits are tacky. It will be much harder to fight the disease while fighting lawsuits and obsessing over every failed step. People are human and NO ONE meant to make it worse. When you notice a problem, fix the problem. That is all that is humanly possible in a case like this.
WTF?
If the have workers’ comp in Texas, then this is workplace matter. If there’s no exposure, what are her damages? You can’t sue somebody cuz you got scared you might get something. Now if she caught it, that would be a workers’ compensation claim. Or in Texas, not?
You’re not serious? This wasn’t a ‘mistake’.
I do not think the CDC knowingly put anyone at risk. I think everyone is learning as they go.
now that our own people are being infected from the people coming here, somebody in the body politic might sit up and take notice. unions are gonna be pissed.
The costs of Obolacare go parabolic. Socialization of risk squid strangles the republic. The check$ and balance$ collectivists decide to let the virus go viral.
I mentioned the lawyers just this morning - and here they come. But in this case I cannot blame the nurse, and here is why:
People are human and NO ONE meant to make it worse. When you notice a problem, fix the problem.
What would a lowly nurse have to do to convince big bosses from the CDC that they are wrong? Those bosses issued a defective PPE to her and then insisted that it's perfectly safe. When it was proven that it wasn't safe, those same bosses chose to blame the workers.
Some people just aren't reasonable. They have to be forced to act reasonably - and we have courts to do just that. It may well be that this nurse had no other way to make changes in the procedure. If nothing is done, it only means that the CDC is going to kill medical workers - and none of the CDC managers will be indicted for murder.
Ebola is a level 4 biohazard and you can google what the suits look like for scientists studying it.
You can see even the precautions taken in the field in Africa.
Compare that to the sorry PPE that is the CDC’s standard for healthcare providers here.
Knowingly or through ignorance? Either way, the protection is not there from the protocol PPEs.
Actually I do believe it was a mistake. I can’t think so lowly of any player in this to think they purposely allowed the disease to spread. This is a new situation for everyone. Perhaps they can be faulted for overconfidence, but even that was based on true belief. Sometimes life just deals you a bad hand.
After this comment I am leaving the thread to those who disagree. I doubt I can change anyone’s mind. I just think lawyers will only make things worse. Full attention should be paid to the current suffers and the prevention of new ones.
It was negligence, absolutely. It wasn’t that they didn’t know better; the CDC director had been to Africa and saw how they gowned up. The US military has researched Ebola for a very long time and knows what it takes to protect employees.
The CDC was criminally negligent in their directions for PPE.
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