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Nurses Union: Duncan Not Put In Isolation, Waste Piled Nearly Up to Ceiling
CNN News via Breitbart TV ^ | 14 Oct 2014, 8:15 PM PDT

Posted on 10/14/2014 9:15:46 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on further allegations made by a nurses union that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was not put into isolation, allowed his blood to circulate through the hospital’s tube system, and that waste “piled up nearly to the ceiling” inside patient’s rooms on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”

Gupta said that the National Nurses United stated that they were informed by nurses that “Mr. Duncan was not in isolation. He was not in isolation for several hours, despite the fact that a nursing supervisor asked that he go into isolation, and that he may have come in contact with seven patients at that time.”

The also claimed, “the blood, the laboratory blood that was taken from Mr. Duncan was sent through the hospital tube system…and the concern is that tube system could potentially become contaminated as a result of the fact that this blood with Ebola was circulating through it.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ceiling; dallas; duncan; ebola; nurses; texas; waste
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To: Jim Noble

Waste piled in patient rooms, ebola or no ebola, is unacceptable.


121 posted on 10/15/2014 6:59:55 AM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: grania

Weekends were the worst time when my Uncle was in ICU...regular staff off...This was @14 years ago


122 posted on 10/15/2014 7:18:43 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: IMR 4350
Well, the military is setting up Ebola Centers in Liberia right now so they know how to do it.

How about they start setting them up in this country, like RIGHT NOW before the massive infections start? The worst that can happen is they will just have to dismantle them later. It's not like we don't know how to do it and NOW would be a perfect time while they can do so quickly and safely - unlike in Liberia.

We should also be using at least the African protocols for PPE. They aren't perfect, but they are a long sight better than what the CDC is now recommending and they are already established and readily available until production on something better can be eventually ramped up by the fumblef*ck bureaucrats in the CDC. Waste disposal incinerators should be set up on site - not contaminants hauled overland to the coast.

We are in a life and death situation and the CDC is acting like it is just another annual flu or norovirus bug spreading around. We need to get out ahead of this thing fast and it is obvious the CDC and fata$$ed bureaucrats in the government are not. They are too busy passing around memos and congratulating themselves on what a great job they are doing.

123 posted on 10/15/2014 7:40:27 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama wants to wage war by measuring it out in teaspoons - Ralph Peters)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Maybe if the victims drank more STERNO or cried a lot...(Subtle reference to THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN)

I will say that the isolation ward in the Andromeda Strain forty years ago was better than what Dallas has used today.


124 posted on 10/15/2014 8:24:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: 353FMG; TomGuy

The book THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints


125 posted on 10/15/2014 8:27:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

>The novel depicts a hypothetical setting whereby Third World mass immigration to France and the West led to the destruction of Western civilization.<

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I have always said that it is the UN’s utopia.

Just look at their membership — who are the contributors and who are the takers? When was the last time they elected someone from the West as Secretary General?


126 posted on 10/15/2014 8:56:25 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Vermont Lt
I tend to agree. Nurse unions are second to teachers in difficulty and bitching about everything.

The 1806 ruling in Commonwealth v. Pullis was quite clear. The finding was that unions constituted an "illegal criminal conspiracy". It's just as true now as it was then.

127 posted on 10/15/2014 9:10:31 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Gritty

There is no way this is through incompetence.

Nobody is this incompetent.

Close to 70% of the American people are smart enough to know to stop the spread you stop flights from W Africa, but the experts aren’t?

No way.

This is intentional.


128 posted on 10/15/2014 9:11:56 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: 9YearLurker
"What’s your point?""

The point was "code," intended only for people who would improvise and solve a problem rather than allow medical waste to pile "nearly to the ceiling" and blame others. More are now infected due to that neglect and cowardice.

It's time, after taking out the trash, for a medic corps of young men to be trained and take over.


129 posted on 10/15/2014 10:28:27 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Huh? Why young men?


130 posted on 10/15/2014 10:30:25 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: grania

It’s a nurse who’s number two. I still say they followed whatever protocol they were told to follow. But obviously that wasn’t enough.

The head of the CDC said this second person shouldn’t have been travelling. Did they tell her not to travel? I have a feeling he knows people on that plane were probably infected so, again, it will be the nurse’s fault for not quarantining herself. And by the way, if a nurse quarantines herself does that mean everyone who lives with her should quarantine themselves, too?

If trash was stacked to the ceiling, as is being claimed, lots of people were infected.


131 posted on 10/15/2014 11:46:25 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: re_nortex

“illegal criminal conspiracy” to do what?


132 posted on 10/15/2014 1:47:15 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
“illegal criminal conspiracy” to do what?

There are numerous links to the case, one of which is just a few paragraphs succinctly outlining the case, Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers. Subsequent rulings of that era found labor unions to be engaged in illegal restraint of trade in what the courts characterizes as "combinations". The Danbury Hatters case is another interesting one which found that secondary boycotts (a favorite tactic of union goons nowadays) violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

As it was then, at the time of the Founders, it is so now, unions are anti-liberty and opposed to the free market. Sadly, leftist courts have undone the constraints once placed on union thugs during the time of the Founders.

133 posted on 10/15/2014 4:46:08 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the information.


134 posted on 10/15/2014 7:32:05 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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