Posted on 10/15/2014 10:26:04 AM PDT by eastforker
The first Dallas health care worker with Ebola, Nina Pham, is in "improved condition today," and the second Dallas health care worker with Ebola is "ill but clinically stable," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said Wednesday. Frieden said it's still to be determined whether Pham will be transferred to another facility; Frieden earlier said the second patient will be transferred to Emory University Hospital.
[Breaking News update 1:05 p.m.]
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Is she being transferred because she is black? Or because the Texas hospital doesn’t have the resources to treat two of them at once?
Paging Dr. Brantley...the rest of your blood is needed.
I think the nurses at the Texas hospital are raising hell about how CDC is handling this, and so that’s why the sudden offer of moving them closer to CDC headquarters in Atlanta.
The second one is very ill I assume. Probably was symptomatic while on the plane, fever and possibly diarrhea.
Or because her case is more advanced. How do we know that she developed the fever AFTER landing in Dallas and not while still in Ohio? Seems a little too convenient that the fever presented once back in Dallas.
maybe that whole craphole of a hospital needs to be shut down until they find some adults to run it
Anyone who reads the internet would have taken better precautions than that hospital
remember these are the people who sent Duncan out into the public with a 103 fever and some antibiotics
then let him lay in the ER vomiting and crapping for hours,
then let his diapers and vomit soaked pads stack up to the ceiling of his room whole advising nurses to put tape around the top of their open neck gowns and around their bare necks
then allowed a staff nurse to fly to Ohio and go to a college football game- then fly home the day after a colleague comes down with ebola
wth
Hence the haste to locate and identify the other passengers on the plane.
up to 15% of ebola infected patents do not show fever as an early symptom
She is being transferred because CDC headquarters are in Atlanta and this will make it easier for them to take credit for everything.
She reportedly only has a fever as of right now.
That’s what got me. You’d think a hospital of all people would know to isolate anyone who came in contact with Duncan.
yes especially if the lady visited the facilities
you know, the ones where the airline asks you to please wipe down the sink (and the stool) with a paper towel
Those hospitals are among only four in the country that have biocontainment units and have been preparing for years to treat a highly infectious disease like Ebola.
"If we knew then what we know now about this hospital's ability to safely care for these patients, then we would have transferred him to Emory or Nebraska," the official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.
Thank you! I've been wondering about that from day freaking one!
The CDC flubbed up that call, too. I wonder if they were trying to make a political point about how 'advanced' US healthcare is by not making the move. "See! Anyone in an advanced western nation can reliably handle this little bug. It's only the backwards, unclean Africans that have a problem. We're too wonderful to have to deal with Ebola in the US."
The fact is, they didn't take this seriously, going to far as to change their OWN recommendations for handling a level 4 containment.
Do we know that for certain? I am not so confident in the voices of authorities.
one is being transferred because it takes 20 ICU staff to tend a single ebola patient. How many bubble boy suits do you think they have on order?
and how many of their ICU staff are now in quarantine?
This DR on FNC is VERY shrill about Oh Calm DOwn....
Time to finalize whatever Ebola preps you’ve been kicking around in your head.
Alternatively, I think the nurses at the Texas hospital are raising hell about how the Texas hospital is handling this, and so that's why the sudden offer of moving them the h*ll out of the Texas hospital, to a hospital that is better equipped to handle Ebola without infecting others.
Agreed, noticed yesterday the WallyWorld had sold alot of bleach. A couple of shelves were empty.
I know the nurses all over Texas are raising hell about how CDC is handling this. I heard a nurse call in to the Austin morning talk show and she was not happy. My sister is a nurse in San Antonio. Will call her later this PM.
“Frieden: Second patient’s temperature was 99. 5 while on plane.”
Guess she had a thermometor up her rectum.
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