Posted on 10/22/2014 4:18:43 PM PDT by RummyChick
(Reuters) - The family of Amber Vinson, one of two Dallas nurses infected with Ebola, said on Wednesday that tests by medical officials were no longer able to detect the virus in her body.
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Does “no longer detected” from lawyer Billy Martin mean the same thing as test came back negative or is he parsing words?
giving joyous lip kisses to all government officials...
She’s adorable. Thank Gd she will live.
The hospital is sworn to uphold HIIPA but not the family.
See the link in my post. When a person gets Ebola they pretty much either recover quickly or die. There are some cases where they suffer more symptoms and then recover more slowly due to lingering damage, but others where recovery is quite rapid. In the recovery cases the body has produced the antibodies, there is no miracle medicine that will make the body do that. Nor is there any predictor on who will produce the antibodies and who won’t.
A negative test only means that the concentration of virus in the patient's body is lower than the threshold of detection. It could be zero, or it could be higher than zero. Time will tell; but considering that they gave her something that is killing the virus, she most likely will be OK.
The “family” of the gentle giant said that he did nothing wrong but be Black and put his hands up. ...So if you do not mind, I will wait for Michelle Malkin or Sean Hannity to tell me that the woman is e-obamala “free”
I hope all of her hundreds of contacts due to air travel are so lucky. I also hope that the owner of that bridal shop had insurance that covers destruction of all of the dresses that she touched. Big “whatever” for this victim.
that doesn’t really answer my question. I am wondering if there is a reason Billy Martin didn’t say the test came back negative.
Hopefully, she is going to be OK, but Ebola patients have been known to seem much better only to crash the next day or so.
I hope she truly is in recovery.
Hmmm....
Tests usually don’t detect the virus itself, but detect antibodies, or a person’s immune system responding to the disease. If early enough in the infection, the antibodies aren’t detected. That being said, it’s a fairly accurate shot at detection.
IMO, it's the same thing. How else would one know that the virus is no longer detected?
Unfortunate headline, given the subject.
Seems as though everyone who hung out with Duncan before his death, except these two nurses who were wearing hazmat gear, are fine as frog’s hair. Maybe Ebola likes to attack people wearing plastic.
“Maybe in some cases. I suspect most cases are up to the patient and not the medical treatment although the treatment should help in some of the cases.”
I know this sounds crazy, but it could be that all people that have Ebola want to be cured of Ebola and that medical treatment here in the developed world may be somewhat effective.
Jason McDonald, spokesperson for the CDC, says he is “not aware of any test results.” He hopes to have an update tomorrow.
“Healthcare provider will determine by diagnostic whether a patient is free of Ebola virus,” he says via email. “We have criteria we ask medical staff to meet but the determination is made by medical care provider.”
So the CDC and Emory don’t know that Vinson has been cured from Ebola???
I would like to know if she ever had it in the first place. Why would her family put such a clamp down on information from the hospital while being treated.
I still think this whole thing is weird.
“except these two nurses who were wearing hazmat gear”
they weren’t wearing hazmat gear. Just some paper gowns, hats, single-layer gloves, face shield. Parts of skin were uncovered per ok of “old” CDC PPE “guidelines”. Plus minimal training on putting on and taking off PPE and no buddy system.
Not for Jesse Jackson and the Duncan family.
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