Posted on 10/01/2014 9:59:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
Unless I'm confused (eminently possible), the son in question lives in NC and has had no contact with his father since Dad arrived in US. Can't see the point of quarantining the son and his family.
I'm also unclear why you think the son behaved inappropriately. He's apparently the one who notified authorities of a possible Ebola case and got the guy into the hospital before he otherwise would have. To my mind, he did the right thing here.
Looks like I’m the one confused. The AOL story speaks of his family in Dallas with “five school children”. The recent article from CNN only mentions three: one child, and 2 20-yo’ds.
My apologies to the son if he had no contact. Earlier stories had that he was coming to visit his son. I didn’t catch that the son was in NC and Duncan was visiting a woman instead. I guess I can pin the stupid label on myself this time. Thanks for steering me back on the road.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210439/posts
I may have been utterly confused on this issue. It seems it was a nephew who called the CDC and got things moving, not a son. The reporting on this issue has been really poor.
Well, isn’t that lovely.
PING!
Huh?
You're right - that's all someone would have to do.
I GUARATEE dogs are licking the water they cleaned the side walks with.
UV kills the virus. 5 watts at about 3 feet for 5 seconds. I want 10 Killowatts for a 44 foot burst. ;-)
He reportedly disclosed that he’d come from Liberia but I doubt that he said he spent his hours there before he left shuttling a dying ebola victim to the hospital and back in a taxi.
If you don’t disclose things to a doctor, there is a chance you may be misdiagnosed.
I doubt it, too. I guess the question now is: Did he know she had Ebola before he left?
She died a few hours after they got her home from the hospital, I’d think so!
I read that the family believed her convulsions were related to her pregnancy - she was seven months along. (Poor young woman and poor baby!) :-(
The family must’ve found out she had Ebola at some point, especially when other family members caught it and died. What I’m wondering is - was this man there when the family found out? Are we sure that he knew?
If he knew and came to the U.S. without telling anyone that he’d been in close contact with an Ebola patient, then he willingly put many people at risk, most of all the family he stayed with in Texas.
Parkland Hospital in Dallas could have and would have handled this correctly ... Most people who live in Dallas and know the city would never go to Presby for emergency room treatment... Parkland is a County Tax payer paid hospital with the best staff in the state supplemented by the medical school attached there...
If you get smashed up in a car accident or a horrible disease you go to Parkland if you want to live.. That is the bottom line... There is not better hospital for such situations in Texas or America. But this idiot had to go to Presby.. who try not to really have a functional Emergency Room - because they are a Private Hospital and do not want the expense... Just high paying insurance customers
Could be a line the press is just saying to prevent a panic.
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