obola and the CDC did nothing. Name one thing they’ve done. Telling healthcare workers to check their temperature doesn’t count because that should be what the workers were doing in the first place. Besides, the temp taking was merely a warm fuzzy because no one was up in arms until they were outwardly sick and contagious. Asking for pinky swears to stay self quarantined worked sooooo well - not. So, again, nothing from obola or the CDC did anything. The borders are still open and planes are flying in from the hot zone. So, yeah, aside from sending 4000 US troops over there to get infected, please explain what it was that was actually done by the government?
“obola and the CDC did nothing. Name one thing they’ve done. “
1. CDC sent medical 50 plus experts to Africa working 24/7 to help. Less ebola in Afirca means less risk of spreading here.
2. CDC ordered $2.7 million in PPE(personal protective equipment) to assist U.S hospital caring for ebola patients. And prepared them into kits for rapid delivery to hospitals.
3. CDC posted guidelines which even when the hospital did not fully follow limited all U.S. contracted cases to two, with 100% survival rate.
4. CDC recommended appropriate airport security which contained the disease without crushing economies by overzealousness or paranoia
5. from July- Sept “CDC has been in close communication with hundreds of thousands of clinicians through notices distributed through CDC’s Health Alert Network,... The Ebola-related notices have included recommendations for evaluating patients, guidance for the nation’s Emergency Medical Services systems and 911 offices, and guidelines for infection control should a hospital or health care facility find themselves caring for a patient with known or suspected Ebola. AND conducted clinician education webinars, reaching more than 8,000 doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. We’ve worked closely with the nation’s associations of hospitals, infection specialists, infection disease clinicians, and hospital epidemiologists, among others, to reach their members with critical information on preparing for Ebola to arrive unannounced in the United States”
6. CDC “We have a hotline —800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636) —where medical personnel can call and be connected with public health experts”
7. CDC has provided checklists and decision guides to aid health workers in doing their jobs.
8. CDC was “working closely with hospitals across the nation. This includes assisting hospitals with holding drills to make sure hospital staff are properly prepared for the arrival of a patient who might have Ebola.”
9. Provided real information compared to the paranoid hyperbole seen here so often.
10. Gov’t sent thousands of troops to help contain the West African problem to reduce its chances of spreading here, and in response to African, government and world health organizations BEGGING for our help. Two months later WHO data supports that the outbreak in Africa not only stopped growing exponentially, but new cases declined radically.
So what did they do? In summary they are helping stop it in Africa and successfully stopped it here.
http://www.cdc.gov/24-7/protectingpeople/disease-detectives/
That is called POLICY. Policy does not mean you have to do any thing. It means you have a plan. In this case the plan was to not quarantine the countries which had ebola outbreaks. We called for a quarantine out of fear of an ebola outbreak here.
What I am saying their policy appears to have been correct. But of course, you cannot agree. I understand.