Posted on 10/24/2014 3:41:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ebola has raised complicated logistical issues of how to trace the possible contacts of an infected patient in a city of more than 8 million people with a sprawling mass transit system and a large population of workers who commute every day from surrounding suburbs and states.
By the time the patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency doctor who had recently returned from Guinea, arrived at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan by ambulance on Thursday, he was seriously ill, officials said.
Dr. Spencer complicated the tracing process when he told health officials that just the night before, he had gone bowling in Brooklyn, making the long trip there from his home in Upper Manhattan by subway and then returning in a car hired via the taxi service Uber.
City health officials were suddenly faced with the challenge of finding the right balance between trying to find everyone who might have been exposed and responding to a disease that is transmitted only through direct exposure to bodily fluids.
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How about the bowling balls? (This is NYC, beyond extremely unlikely he was bowling with his own ball.
This will be a good test to see if this thing is airborne, because if he took the subway from Harlem all the way to Brooklyn, that is a hell of a long ride with a lot of stops going through main terminals which no doubt at times resulted in people standing shoulder to shoulder in that car, if not all the way if it was rush hour. People standing THAT close is the ultimate test if this thing can be caught through the air. If it can be, that city is effed in the worst way. NYC is ridiculously over populated and I could see how one guy could easily infect 100s of people with one subway ride.
Bellevue Hospital demonstrates its Ebola preparedness for the press. The color-coordinated running shoes are a fashionable addition to the Ebola personal protective equipment. (So what happens when ick from the Ebola victim obeys the Law of Gravity and runs down the gown?)
Obama will “have more flexibility after the election.” This time, though, he has maximum flexibility because it is the last election for the narcissist.
He’s going out with a bang. He knows, these last two years will be devastating to the United States of America, because he has been working, on the down-low, to bring his hate of this nation and everything it stands for to fruition.
NYC is much better qualified than stupid Dallas. That’s what we heard all evening long Ed Henry to cuomo. All we heard ‘this is NYC. We can handle it.
The cdc director and his boss are numb skulls.
Why did he come home after being exposed to Ebola?? Why was he not placed into quarantine?
I think it’s a combination of arrogance and lack of common sense of an intelligent individual.
Yeah. (laughing) Arrogance, ya think?!
Some will vote dem no matter what else to protect their perverse lifestyles.
Women and minorities hardest hit!
Her hair should be covered.
The medicos clearly have to be put on lockdown when they arrive here from Ebola-land.
Mission Accomplished.
Obola and the EXEMPT, treasonous, Congress
are the SOLE REASON for this disease in America.
Mission Accomplished.
Obola and the EXEMPT, treasonous, Congress
are the SOLE REASON for this disease in America.
“This will be a good test to see if this thing is airborne”
Yep. And remember, the infected doctor just came from the hot zone where the virus may be changing:
“Leading U.S. scientist warns deadly virus is already changing to become more contagious”
“It is a good thing people who have been exposed to Ebola in west Africa are allowed to freely come to America without any restrictions. Just think how bad it would be if we quarantined Ebola nations? This according to the CDC director.”
My God, if he had been put in isolation for three weeks, WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE DOES THAT SEND to West Africa...that we have a problem with them, just because they’re black. I’m PROUD that Ebola finally came to our city. We can hold our heads high because we are now CONNECTED to the outside world. The Tea Party can shove it.
[[This is EXACTLY how the Democrat leaders see it. It is up to use to point that out and NAIL THEM.]]
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