Yale-New Haven Hospital treating quarantined patient with Ebola-like symptoms

WFSB ^ | 10-16-2014 | WFSB-TV

[Grammy]

bfl

[SE Mom]

Yep

[bgill]

About time Nina is being moved.

Picture captioned "Yale-New Haven Hospital Ready For Potential Ebola Cases" Uh, NOOOOOOT!

[Jim Noble]

The student has previously tested negative when left Liberia

Does anyone know what this means? 'Cause I don't.

[winoneforthegipper]

He did not trump the CDC but sure sounds like he has readied the student body.

[bgill]

From what we’ve seen, it doesn’t take long to get a negative test but it takes two+ days to get back positive test results. The longer these potential patients are monitored, the more likely it is they have Ebola.

[winoneforthegipper]

He did not trump the CDC but sure sounds like he has readied the student body.

[Jim Noble]

The patient was admitted LAST NIGHT, but nobody in the media learned it until TODAY??? I’m betting the new “protocol” is to keep as many of these cases under wraps as they can, until after election day

If I admitted an Ebola patient last night, I would shoot the first person who called the media.

That has nothing to do with the elections, and everything to do with the nature of the media.

[Marcella]

Please try to keep us up to date and stay safe - thank you.

[lancium]

From what I understand the test looks for a very specifiic number of “antibodies?” so it can show negative until you’re in full blown ebola mode

[winoneforthegipper]

Not confirming but sounds like it...from presser.

2:3 YNHH is well equipped for and prepared to care for this patient in a safe way that will not impact any other patients in the Hospital.

[lancium]

New Haven mayor is saying he doesn’t believe this will turn out to be ebola. I’m not sure how a mayor is qualified to make that judgement...

[Vermont Lt]

My daughter is an EMT is Springfield. She only has to dodge bullets.

[winoneforthegipper]

Judging by everything I have seen in language addressing this patient I would say the mayor is out to lunch.

[Vermont Lt]

Hospitals cannot, pro actively, release this information. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s the law. In fact, if you don’t ask the hospital a specific name, they will refuse to tell you whether or not they are a patient. There are no exceptions for public health concerns.

I know. It’s messed up.

[jjsheridan5]

Judging by everything I have seen in language addressing this patient I would say the mayor is out to lunch.

Strange for the mayor to go out on a limb like this, and you would think he would be in-the-know. But this really does look like a positive, doesn't it?

[winoneforthegipper]

few tidbits...

Harp says she’s been contacted by the US HHS secretary and that Feds will help the city if it’s Ebola

YNH CMO says they were aware of it “yesterday afternoon and evening”

Infectious disease doctor at YNH: Responders wore Level 3 suits

The patient was self-monitoring and let a primary care provider know about a fever.

[lancium]

Mayor rambling..notified at 9pm last night/reminds everyone it’s flu season/doesn’t think it will turn out to be Ebola/if it is ebola city is prepared/protocols for care are “even higher than required by CDC”

[9YearLurker]

Yep—Yale parents are connected and proactive, albeit hopelessly liberal.

[winoneforthegipper]

Surely it is being couched..normally that would indicate an outcome that is not desired.

But given the players involved on this one, I suppose there could be other factors involved.