Dallas hospital that treated three Ebola patients had machine that can detect disease in just min.

Daily Mail ^ | October 17, 2014 | MICHAEL ZENNIE

[dfwgator]

Balls are not allowed in this country anymore.

[livius]

I doubt that it would have missed it in his case...he was pretty advanced by that time. It might miss very early stages, since I assume that it has been tested at all stages.

[Veto!]

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[livius]

There was an excellent article in the WSJ today about the fact that both treatments and vaccines could be developed very quickly - except for FDA regulations. And the regulations are not aimed at health, but at avoiding lawsuits.

ZMapp, the only drug that has seemed to work in some cases, is actually not approved for use in the US and they had to use some emergency waiver to get it.

[stanne]

FDA blockage. Govt interference then govt finger pointing

Meanwhile the workers are all globe trotting frontier and carnival. The greed of the airlines will catch up to them

Think people as the engineer said in Apollo 13 when we were able to get to the moon

Let’s not make things worse

[mongo141]

More incompetency from the Federal government at large.

[yoe]

Thanks....

[chris37]

Perhaps not in this case, but even humans missed it and sent him home as I understand.

Even still, a 10% failure rate is significant.

[vette6387]

“If the hospital’s medical director had had any balls, he would have said screw the FDA...roll out that machine and crank it up!”

The Hospital management’s “balls” are in a “lock box” in the White Hut!

This is the ultimate FU from the FDA, but they routinely deny access to developing medicines and medical technology by reason of it “not yet being approved,” even if the patients agree to accept the results, good or bad, because they are dying. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

[oh8eleven]

doctors were barred from using it because of federal regulations.
IIRC, it was federal regulation that blocked the FBI and CIA from sharing information that would/could have stopped the 9/11 terrorists.

[blackdog]

Ebola management is a government growth industry. It also will be used to reduce targeted expenditures that government wants to eliminate. Obama has brought it here as part of his personal agenda.

[re_nortex]

Defund the CDC! Abolish the FDA! "Government IS the problem." -- Ronald Reagan

[RWGinger]

I don’t mind them using them in Africa
I DO mind our military docs using them. I know they will wear protective gear but it still means they will be handling vials of fluid
leave the machines
bring the Docs home NOW

[SE Mom]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jdmiles11/status/523145254015205376

Wait a second. ..what’s THIS???

At work on phone. .can’t research more

[PghBaldy]

They are OUR machines. They should be here.

[RWGinger]

Well apparently they ARE here too but the FEDS are stopping hospitals from using

[livius]

That’s because they had no quick reliable test for Ebola.

[maggief]

CBSDFW
@CBSDFW

#Breaking patient @ Baylor Med Ctr in Dallas screened(NOT TESTED) positive for #Ebola transferred to Presbyterian. Symptoms/contacts concern

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I will research ...

[alloysteel]

To extend the baseball metaphor, this was a swing and a miss - called STRIKE, count oh and two on the batter.

A total whiff.

C’mon, Federal Gov. Let’s swing for the fences next pitch.

[maggief]

CBSDFW retweeted
J.D. Miles J.D. Miles @jdmiles11 3m
#Breaking sources says it’s not unusual to have a patient screen positive considering the wider net for #Enola now over Dallas.

CBSDFW retweeted
J.D. Miles J.D. Miles @jdmiles11 5m
#Breaking I’m told a number of patients screening positive but testing negative for #Ebola Baylor patient transferred out of caution

CBSDFW retweeted
Bud Gillett Bud Gillett @Bud_Gillett 11m
Baylor Hosp confirms a patient with Ebola similar symptoms also triggered a positive verbal screening questionnaire. Was moved to Presby

CBSDFW retweeted
KRLD KRLD @KRLD 13m
#BREAKING Another patient in North Texas has ‘screened positve’ for #ebola. - no test confirmed yet. Listen live: bit.ly/OOuX6X