Posted on 07/31/2014 2:25:13 PM PDT by Wage Slave
Please let me know your source for “the experimental serum” given to Nancy Writebol. Many thanks.
Agree with you about not bringing it here. Thats just asking for trouble. Send the medical workers over there if that’s what is needed.
Never mind, I found a ton of articles about the doc and the missionary. Personally, I think it’s a crime that the 33-year-old doc with two young children gave up the serum to a 60-year-old woman. I can understand his thinking was flawed by the disease; someone else should have made the decision for him.
Quite a difference between a few samples stored in locked freezers and armed guards, vs the sample walking in and interacting with the not-long healthy.
I hope every person involved is summarily fired and imprisoned.
A kid whom he treated. There’s poetry in that.
Praying fervently that this good man is spared to continue the work of his heart.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/07/31/6010018/texas-doctor-with-ebola-turns.html
Many others. Just google Writebol or Brantly.
Thanks Jedidah. I finally did just that. I think young Dr. Brantly should have been given the serum rather than the 60-yr old woman. He’s only 33 and has two children to raise. Hopefully both victims will rally and survive.
He’s a medical professional. I would hope that his decision to give the serum to her was not entirely unselfish, that it may have indicated that his condition is improving and she needed it more.
We’re just sitting here armchair-quarterbacking. I feel sure the docs there know more than we do.
Unlike many, including some on this thread, I have no problem whatsoever with bringing either of these Americans back for treatment, if they’re up to the trip (which is questionable). Our medical community is completely capable of quarantining them and treating them in isolation. This awful disease is a threat worldwide if it escapes Africa, and we need to learn all we can about it and prepare.
Regardless of what the reason is in bringing them home, I agree, it is not sound public policy.
do we know the name of the airline/charter
that is transporting the diseased people?
Putin could decontaminate it before it got here, if the flight path were in range of any assets. Maybe they’ll pass close enough to Cuba.
Ping...
You sir or mam, do not follow history much? The only upside to ebola is how fast it kills within a population of limited means of dispersal or travel. Give it the means to mass and transoceanic transit and you are looking at something out of a Stephen King novel.
The herds are about to be culled folks. I'm not armchairing anything. Global pandemics do occur. Why give them jet fuel to do so?
If the flight is not military, the captain is solely responsible for his cargo and pax.
This *patient* has to be arriving from somewhere/somehow....who’s to say they’re not flying in with your sister, brother, wife, husband, uncle....etc?
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...
FWIW, I got caught in a swine flu quarantine almost five years ago because of symptoms. I didn't have swine flu. It's very frightening. Once the ptb decide on a quarantine, you don't get to decide. Going home is not an option, until they say so.
I could imagine that experience as having been a test run. A quarantine situation in the US sure would take attention away from all of our crises.
Bingo. THAT ^^ is the question.
Radio news about five PM said the plane was a private jet with special isolation chamber and only five or six medicos aboard, IIRC
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.