What more could a health care worker possibly need for Ebola in 2014?<\sarcasm off>
Posted on 10/28/2014 6:26:38 AM PDT by Enlightened1
What more could a health care worker possibly need for Ebola in 2014?<\sarcasm off>
Forbes says the number includes all health care workers.
(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
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...
That's better. Even so, they need all the health care workers they can get. Obviously they aren't able to protect them.
Just take it as a lesson, and perhaps shove it back on the speaker -
With liberals, it’s all about feeling good about yourself, isn’t it? Doesn’t matter what the consequences are for everyone else, as long as you can justify thinking you’re a good person, right?
Are those teleprompters the Messiah is hanging over trying to touch the food?
They are ALL mentally ill.
We used to call them experts, then they all died.
Like I have posted before it is difficult to get out of the gear without accidentally contaminating something. Our isolation techniques here are pretty forgiving as things like TB and such are really not that contagious. Folks get overconfident and sloppy.
I wonder if he misspoke. I've heard reports that said around fifteen doctors and many more health care workers. Maybe a total of around 230.
That aligns more with what I have heard too. I know MSF (Doctors without Borders) has lost 6 doctors? If I recall that number right. 9 infected, 6 died.
But, if you were an African nurse, and you were caring for the ill, and the doctor treating the ill died from the same thing... would you come to work?
I am sure that there is a much larger component of that aspect than the deaths and illnesses.
Huh?
Forbes is behind the information curve or maybe just lazy.
Total number of HCW is over 400 including doctors.
This has been posted on many of the current Ebola threads.
Sadly, it’s subject to a weekly update.
They’ll always point to the doctors “failure to follow” protocol as the cause.
Regardless of whether they have any proof.
The world has far too many people willing to be martyred or commit self-immolation. This is nature’s way of culling their numbers and letting the arrogant know who is still in charge.
i remember when AIDS first came onto the scene. all the experts trotted out proclaiming that they knew with certainty that AIDS absolutely, positively cannot be spread by ———. then someone would catch AIDS by ———
seemed to be a recurring problem.
Ebola has been around longer then aids. (at least as a named virus)
ebola outbreaks were always small because people died before they could walk out of the jungle. Yet, ebola was always used as the worst case scenerio aside from engineered bioweapons. This is the first outbreak where ebola has managed to get into the cities of a mobile population.
Of these 230 doctors how many were residents of the Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea? How many were trained in western medical schools? How many worked in hospitals with the proper hazmat suits and equipment?
To be picky, it is nowhere near 230 doctors. The total in this outbreak is 244 dead health care workers, out of 450 infected health care workers (80 in Guinea; 228 in Liberia; 11 in Nigeria; 127 in Sierra Leone; one in Spain; and 3 in USA). The vast majority of those are nurses and medical technicians/assistants.
The “Science” is likely misbehaving....
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