Posted on 10/26/2014 8:28:48 PM PDT by RightGeek
You may think you know the details of what happened in Dallas. But 60 Minutes asks you to think again.
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with four of the nurses who treated Thomas Duncan, the initial Ebola patient.
Here’s what we learned.
1. Whether intentionally or not, Duncan misled authorities about his exposure to Ebola.
When Duncan first presented to the hospital on September 25, he didn’t specify that he’d come from Liberia or even West Africa — the center of the Ebola outbreak.
Duncan only said he’d returned from “Africa,” which could’ve meant one of dozens of nations, most of them far from the Ebola outbreak. Perhaps the nurses could’ve pressed him further. But with Duncan’s symptoms not that severe yet, and with no real reason to think he had Ebola, they sent him home.
After Duncan was re-admitted to the hospital three days later, significantly sicker, the hospital suspected Ebola might be the cause. But even then, Duncan wasn’t wholly honest. He said he hadn’t been exposed to anyone who was sick from Ebola, even though later reports revealed that Duncan had bravely helped carry an Ebola-infected woman to a local hospital in Liberia.
Duncan also told a nurse that he’d buried his daughter who died in childbirth — but he said that she hadn’t died from Ebola. Duncan later denied the story to federal officials.
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You are surprised by this because?
Strange that Obana’s National Security Advisor, Bob Rhodes,
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Susan Rice is Obama’s National Security Advisor.
The only problem is that people can be infected with more than one bug at a time. I HOPE US healthcare workers realize that...
I’d think that administering Ebola antibodies to health care workers interacting directly with Ebola patients might be a wise move. ... Have a small crew of workers unlikely to get sick even if accidentally infected.
Ebola survivors are a source of the antibodies...and there is also that Zmapp stuff that contains three different Ebola antibodies.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
If that were the case there would be many more cases in Africa.
Uh the vomiting and diarrhea are because your gut is dying. If anything it’s a mechanism the VIRUS uses to spread itself.
Well at least no more sick patients were being admitted, since they had to close the entire ER too. If the Feds are going to keep importing cases, they should be forced to reimburse the hospitals for ALL the costs and lost income...
cytokine storm
the body basically turns on itself
everything the body has to fight a virus is coopted by this virus
Notice how the NYC doctor’s condition has dropped off the news reporting?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-25/nyc-ebola-patients-condition-worsens-fiancee-returns-home
This from the comment section
“The next phase. “Gastrointestinal problems” This is when the “bricks” of virus multiplication begin bursting and the virus rapidly swarms the entire body, one symptom of which is the antibodies begin ravaging the host. Blood no longer coagulates and the lining of the intestine slough... as in peel off. The internal organs literally begin liquefying and bleeding then commences from all orifices. The man is likely by now for all intents and purposes, dead. Needles inserted into veins simply fallout as skin has no cohesion. Pain is unimaginable. The consciousness seems to disappear as the infected begins to simply stare with little response ability .... it is literally a retreat into hell”
Why would he have done that? It probably caused his death, by delaying his treatment. After all, he was safely in the US, where they know how to treat Ebola! Well, don't they?
The correct answer is, he didn't know he had Ebola, didn't know he'd been exposed. Didn't lie at the Monrovia airport. Didn't lie in Dallas.
The case he had dealt with was the first in his neighborhood, and he'd been assured it was not Ebola, just a pregnancy-related illness (biting tongue causes bleeding from the mouth, dontch know).
His ignorance is just an example of how this disease spreads in Africa. It's Lurch's fault he got the chance to demo the syndrome in this country. Actually, if Lurch's helpers had been a little more efficient, his visa would have been approved in time for him to arrive in June for his son's graduation. In which case, we'd never have heard of him. He'd just be one more Liberian visa overstayer by now, probably driving a cab in Dallas. LOL!
I stopped watching 60 Minutes in 1969. That's when an executive from the company I worked for was interviewed on the show. The producers didn't like the answers he gave, so they re-shot the questions after he left to make his answers give the opposite impression of what he meant. Any show that is that dishonest can never be trusted for anything.
I think you’re right. The average IQ in Liberia is 67. Duncan’s behavior can probably be chalked up to stupidity.
The real problem, as I understand it, is that racist Texas has not implemented Obamacare coverage for Liberian nationals.
Duncan only said he’d returned from “Africa,” which could’ve meant one of dozens of nations, most of them far from the Ebola outbreak. Perhaps the nurses could’ve pressed him further. But with Duncan’s symptoms not that severe yet, and with no real reason to think he had Ebola, they sent him home.
After Duncan was re-admitted to the hospital three days later, significantly sicker, the hospital suspected Ebola might be the cause. But even then, Duncan wasn’t wholly honest. He said he hadn’t been exposed to anyone who was sick from Ebola, even though later reports revealed that Duncan had bravely helped carry an Ebola-infected woman to a local hospital in Liberia.
There goes Jesse Jackson's racism claim. Duncan getting sent home the first time is entirely his own fault for not being truthful.
Not to worry, Cuomo is a Marxist so he knows everything about everything.
Pray America wakes
——I’m completely shocked that 60 Minutes would report anything potentially damaging to the administration-——
Remember the journalistic dictum “If it bleeds it leads”
Early on, I read that even when he was still in africa, Duncan knew he had Ebola, and "didn't want to die". So he hopped a plane to the US where he could get [free] treatment. He had absolutely no regard for those he might infect.
Open borders, no quarantine - 0bama's recipes for our downfall. And keep in mind that, despite months of decrying that Ebola was out of control, most hospitals were (and probably still are) unprepared to handle patients.
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