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Oct. 16: Ebola-like symptoms.
Officials aren't saying who it is, but it is likely one of these two, and was admitted last night.
Media was not allowed in the briefing for officials.
I believe they’ve now confirmed it was a Yale researcher who was in Liberia
There is a live feed at the link, currently showing reporters waiting on the presser.
Tweets from Robert Goulston WFSB -
New Haven officials: Yale researcher checked in with Ebola-like symptoms. The student has previously tested negative when left Liberia.
News conference scheduled for 12:30 at Yale New Haven’s Bradley conference center.
If confirmed, this will result in a response. Yale is “real” to the elites, unlike Texas or Ohio.
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I wonder if they’ll get extra credit for catching Ebola?
I smell some lawsuits. Anyone who can afford to send their kids to Yale probably already has a good lawyer.
We will find out much more about Ebola once the November elections are over. Releasing information now might harm Democrats up for election.
More on this from Twitter.
Unconfirmed...
The University apparently asked the two to “Sequester themselves” for 21 days, and they refused.
I’m here at Yale New Haven Hospital right now as I work as an EMT in New Haven. The PPE supplies are stacked to the ceiling and we’re de-con-ing every surface coming and going. You call 911 in New Haven today and be prepared to wait a bit longer.
This old “no symptoms - no problem” crap must change. While they’re waiting to get symptoms they’re spreading the virus.
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.
Is the United States in a good position to stay a step ahead of this growing epidemic?
In Liberia, the infrastructure to combat such a widespread outbreak is weak. It is not easy to get to a hospital and get rehydrated; there is no tracking system in place to find and notify others who might have come into contact with those who have contracted the virus. Even if you could identify all of these people, there isn’t a humane, reliable way to isolate them from the rest of the community. Missing all of these elements is a “double whammy” to economically vulnerable areas trying to manage such a deadly, fast-moving epidemic. The most important factor in controlling the Ebola outbreak is a strong, well-functioning health system, which we have here in the United States.
>Oct. 14: Two Yale students researching Ebola in Liberia return home
Idiots. Play with your Ebola in a lab here, not out in the field of moronic natives who infect and kill others.
I wonder how many native’s flesh these morons chummed up against?
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Not sure what’s up over here but they’re not letting a hospice patient transfer out. same with other transfers.
Here’s a pretty good blog on the New Haven situation:
http://blog.ctnews.com/newsdesk/2014/10/16/report-possible-ebola-case-at-yale-new-haven-hospital/
Turns out the guy had had direct contact with the Ebola-infected NBC cameraman, though a day before he was symptomatic.
CT has established more stringent guidelines for dealing with Ebola than the CDC has. Anyone returning from the region is supposed to be on home quarantine for 21 days, regardless of whether they’ve had direct Ebola patient contact.
Malloy has been an incredibly bad, tax-jacking, Dem guv. But if he continues to play this right, I could see him wriggling into reelection despite his Leftist poisoning of the state economy.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Bring Out Your Dead
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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...
Congress needs to pass a law that says whomever is diagnosed with Ebola has to be immediately identified to the press by name and history.