Posted on 02/18/2020 3:39:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Nebraska's state slogan "Honestly, it's not for everyone," should have an asterisk, because everyone with even the trickiest disease seems welcome at Nebraska's largest medical facility.
Ebola, SARS, monkeypox, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the Nebraska Medicine/University of Nebraska Medical Center says it is ready to care for patients with any of those difficult diseases. On Monday it was the novel coronavirus that kept personnel there up overnight.
That's when the US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness Response asked UNMC to take in a total of 13 patients who had either tested positive, or had a high likelihood of testing positive, for the novel coronavirus. The patients had been on a cruise ship docked off the cost of Japan for two weeks. The center said it was prepared.
"It's what we train and exercise for every quarter," said Shelly Schwedhelm. Schwedhelm is the UNMC/Nebraska Medical Executive Director of Emergency Management and Biopreparedness who has clinical oversight of the quarantine and biocontainment units.
One of the patients was sent to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit for further evaluation. That patient had a chronic condition and was experiencing some light-headedness and shortness of breath, according to the hospital, but is in stable condition and doing well.
The special 10-bed biocontainment unit is a state-of-the-art facility that has been doing this kind of complicated work for nearly 15 years.
It is a secured area with its own ventilation system that is isolated from the rest of the hospital and is staffed by people with specialized training in communicable diseases. It had been commissioned by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2005.
This isn't the first patient connected to a high profile disease in the unit.
In 2014, the unit successfully treated three patients with Ebola, including Dr. Rick Sacra, an American physician
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This ain’t over til its over
kiddies. And it ain’t over.
Nice. In the heart of ‘Merica.
I guess the medical folk need to inform themselves about this Corona thing in a controlled environ.
Come to scenic Nebraska!Bring Out Your Dead
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...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
We have been trying to get China to let our CDC into Wuhan and they aren’t cooperating. This will give them an opportunity to learn more about the virus and how to combat it. All the same I sure wouldn’t want to live next door...
“Nebraska’s state slogan “Honestly, it’s not for everyone,””
No! It is “The bug eaters”.
The CoronaHuskers!
But wait! I thought CNN agreed with Bloomberg when he said that people in farming states were stupid.
There is lost irony here. You see, in the Northeastern hospitals, there aren’t enough crops grown by the farmers nearby to increase the intellectual level high enough like they have in Nebraska, with all their farmers...and with all their crops...
Love it.
But could Nebraska contain and treat a 1000 patients?
Global Declared Active Cases
02/17/2020 15:13 58,809 Active Cases
02/18/2020 15:23 58,789 Active Cases 20 fewer cases
My Dad had brain surgery a few floors above that win.
Nebraska is many things, stupid isn’t one of them.
There is a couple quarantine camps along the I 80 corridor.
Enough for a 1,000 active cases? I don’t know. A couple hundred? yes.
Buddy of mine lives with in 4 miles of one.
Our government has plans for a pandemic with more than 200 sick patients... right?
A bio-attack has been studied by the folks at the Pentagon, right? They have a plan to deal with a pandemic, right?
This little hospital isn’t ‘the plan’ right? We have a plan, right?
And if not, why the hell not?
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