Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
An American doctor stricken by Ebola in West Africa arrived home for treatment in Atlanta on Saturday, and U.S. government officials are urging the public to remain confident in the health-care system’s ability to keep the deadly disease isolated.
A charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, said two Americans in serious condition with the disease were being evacuated: Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who had been treating Ebola victims in Liberia, and Nancy Writebol, a missionary from Charlotte.
Brantly and Writebol have been hospitalized in serious condition in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Brantly was brought back to the United States first, in a specially equipped “air ambulance” aircraft that landed Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in the northwest Atlanta suburbs, according to news reports.
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Truth be told, if they survive, this means that we can manufacturer the cure and ship it over THERE!
There is no way that the public would stand for infected victims to be shipped here and cured. We would foot the manufacturing bill and then end up shipping it over THERE.
No one ever said that they had to come here.
Well reasoned and written!
Realistically the chance that treatment in the US, compared to treatment there, can materially affect the survival chances of these two charitable, good, Americans is, at most, some small fraction of two individuals. The risk in bringing them here is a series of progressively smaller chances multiplied by a series of progressively larger victim pools. It isn't clear the former is greater than the latter. Primum Non Nocere!
Another risk with bringing them here is that people infected with Ebola may not think and act rationally. Disease barriers such as protective clothing and isolation rooms presume the patient will cooperate. That may, dangerously, not be true. Check out the story of the 'American' with Ebola who died in Nigeria en route back home linked within that post. Of course he might have acted that way just because he, as an African government bureaucrat, thought he was entitled. Like those with whom Obama is meeting this weekend.
Sending volunteers from the US, including volunteers from the CDC, to help provide care there avoids involuntary risk for the innocent here. CDC sends volunteer field teams into risks all the time.
Walking makes for a great photo op no matter who might have been in that suit. With this government pushing the warm fuzzy envelope on this, it wouldn’t suprise me one bit if that wasn’t him.
I dunno; who knows what is going on. I just pray and have hope.
BTW, one of hubby’s kin is an ambulance chaser.
If this gets out of Emory, Graham’s organization won’t survive the tort.
I agree with you. It’s also a good opportunity to study the disease, and with patients whom are medically trained.
I’m curious to know where they “evacuated” all the patients to? What’s to keep them from infecting other patients and staff that they come into contact with. How were they transported?
His children and wife are here in the U.S. and have been for about a month or so,I believe.
Mrs. AV
So many questions, so few answers.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to help ...
I have seen some video from Liberia that shows ladies washing the big blue elbow length gloves and putting them on sticks to dry in the sun.
They were washing them by immersing them in a bucket. This would contaminate the entire interior of the glove with virus-laden water. The interior of the glove. The part that goes next to the skin of whomever is wearing it.
I understand this is Africa, where AIDS was spread for years by re-using needles. Resources are virtually non-existent and ignorance and corruption is rife, but improper use of protective equipment is almost worse than none at all, because it gives a false sense of security.
This equipment should be incinerated after use, not washed and re-used.
The ladies doing the washing were unprotected, also.
Mrs. AV
zer0 and his CDC will spread it to white middle class communities using free blanket giveaways(figuratively speaking). And inoculate his ‘Amish’,LaRasa and Islamics for his takeover move. “ i’m pretty good at killing people”
Not sure why you directed your post to me. Did I say something unkind about the Dr. from Samaritan’s Purse? I pointed out that the organization was being singled out for demonization while 340 Peace Corps volunteers with minimum screening were being whisked back into the general population.
Perhaps they’ll be sent to care for some unaccompanied minors and then barry’ll score a twofer on the Cloward Piven scorecard.
There are actually 340 of the Peace Corpsers being flown back!
Graham’s organization is being singled out to be the scapegoat if it gets loose in CONUS.
I’m afraid that that video gives a very misleading impression of what is actually going on.
Based on the report given by Richard Preston in the New Yorker, the medical infrastructure in Monrovia has effectively collapsed, which is probably the primary reason why the two infected US doctors have been flown to Atlanta.
I’m going to link to the article again, and everyone should read it:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/outbreak
The odds are much greater that if Ebola occurs in North America, it will be due to some Ebola carrier who gets here and falls ill. Like someone who arrived within the last few weeks.
I am happy to see great minds and people of great faith work toward curing seemingly incurable diseases. This work is done every single day in this country and in other places around the world. There is little hysteria about this dangerous work. Dr. Brantly is in Atlanta because they do this dangerous work every day. Every day. Every day a virulent strain of something could be released into the general population. But it isn’t. And every day, we have people working to stop mass casualties from terrorism of all sorts. Get a grip. Calm down. We are all gonna die. This is true. But probably not from Dr. Brantly being at Emory University.
According to his wife, she talked to him, and he was able to walk on his own. That is a really good sign! I expected him to be on a stretcher and too weak to walk. Perhaps the blood transfusion worked, and he will not succumb to ebola. I am praying for everyone afflicted with this horrible virus, and their loved ones who must be terrified.
There’s a difference between doing an experiment with a test tube full of level 4 pathogen that’s inclusive to a containment facility.
And allowing someone contaminated with enough virons to infect every single human being on the planet to ride in normal Atlanta traffic subject to any fender bender or accident.
And the CDC has a piss poor record with pathogens in general. We’ve just been very lucky:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/02/us-usa-healthcare-cdc-idUKKBN0G201A20140802
I read Hot Zone and lost count at 10 breaches of protocol in the handling of e. Reston.
If Ebola occurs in NA, Graham’s organization will be the scapegoat. I can think of no other reasons this particular administration is doing them this ‘favor’. They despise Samaritan’s Purse.
Any research that needs to be done on Brantly could have just as easily been done in a field hospital in rural Africa.
Or Diego Garcia.
It’s like letting your 4yr old handle the paring knife. It will probably be OK. But the downside is great.
I think you misunderstood my point - they were washing gloves by dunking them in a bucket and re-using them! Gloves covered by blood and vomit laden with ebola! It’s no wonder the healthcare workers are dying! They are staking their lives on the equipment they are using which is already contaminated on the INSIDE from being dunked in a bucket of dirty water and re-used!
No wonder they are all getting sick. Ignorance is a killer.
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