Posted on 10/19/2014 12:39:53 PM PDT by driftdiver
(CNN) -- The U.S. military is forming a 30-person "quick strike team" equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, a Defense Department official told CNN's Barbara Starr on Sunday.
A Pentagon spokesman later confirmed portions of the official's information.
The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said.
The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.
The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
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Because NorthCom is the lead agent for emergency response, in coordination with FEMA and state responders.
Barack Hussein Obama, the most devastating, well-planned terrorist attack to ever strike American soil. He will destroy us. Twenty cases of Ebola in the US would create full out panic, and arguably be enough to warrant martial law. Spread the military thin in the US and ISIS has nothing to stop them from a full caliphate, which is the imposters goal.
Does the military provide those to civilians?
In most cases the military refers its patients to civilian hospitals for advanced care. The overseas military hospitals I was at had a hard time providing basic care let alone anything as complex as ebola.
Heck one guy I knew almost died because the hospital couldn’t do an operation to take out his appendix. They ended up flying him out to another military hospital 3 hours away during which his appendix burst.
I think you’ve hit on it.
The military operates about 54 hospitals, and when I was in everything was done on base, today I use the VA.
“WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center serves more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the military, admitting 16,000 patients a year.”
As you saw Walter Reed trains doctors in infectious disease.
You worked in two anecdotes, one that overseas military hospitals weren’t treating Ebola when you were in, and that you knew a “guy” who almost died because one military hospital couldn’t do the appendectomy, so they took him to another military hospital, they weren’t useful anecdotes as far as information goes.
You sure are working hard to want to show that the military can’t put together an adequate team of 30 people to do this medical job, which is pretty much a job they did over 30 years before Obama.
Unless you have some facts, it gets tiring hearing your opinion over and over.
Of course they do.
I don't think this reaction team is intended to replace the civilian medical community in treating Ebola, unless they think that it will be one patient per month, and no vacation time, and that they think that America's medical people will suddenly quit enmass because of an infectious disease, or that military doctors and nurses can't resign or refuse to re up.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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