"Despite being described by Spain's public health director as "a national jewel," the head of Spain's Nursing Council warns "something went wrong" in the health care system's protocols. As RT reports, Spanish health officials have 4 patients interned including infected initial nurse, her husband, and a 2nd nurse (male). Furthermore, 22 more possible Ebola cases are under surveillance having had direct contact with the infected nurse during her vacation after being infected (officials have said they 'don't know' how she became infected with the deadly virus). Images within the hospital show "irregularities" and make-shift isolation units and an insider account said "I do not want to create social alarm, but explain what is still a reality everyday for a few months of nursing staff at the ICU.". One researcher noted "air traffic is the driver.," and added ominously, "it's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky.""
“it’s just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky.”
How much more luckier are the rich and and their political cadre going to be than the ordinary Edward Ebola’s of the world.
I think this one is pretty definitely human error. The nurse’s aide (not a nurse, btw) who got it only saw the infected missionary twice: once just to look in and check on him, and once to help clean out the room (remove sheets, etc.) after he died. It was probably then that she came in contact with some contaminated object and for one reason or another was not adequately protected. (There is a suggestion, btw, that they were not using a high enough level of protective gear to begin with.)
But the really bad part is that she went on vacation immediately after his death. Fortunately, she didn’t travel out of Madrid but stayed in her neighborhood, Alcorcon. Towards the end of the week, she felt a little achey and when she developed a fever, she went to the hospital...but not back to Carlos III, where she worked and where the ebola patients had been kept, but to the Alcorcon general hospital. She sat in the waiting and treatment area with the other patients for about 4 hours, had her temperature taken by the nurses, etc.
What was she thinking of? Surely she must have realized that, with her exposure, it was very likely that she had ebola and she was contagious at that point. As soon as she revealed her contacts to the medical staff, they had her in isolation and immediately on her way to Carlos III. But a local general hospital like Alcorcon doesn’t even have a serious isolation unit or any of the equipment required, so now everybody who was at the hospital, especially the employees, is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Human error and stupidity...the thing that is truly unfixable and unpreventable.
I’m under an air travel path to and from a major city in a tourist area of the West. There’s been nearly no air travel for several days.