Posted on 10/12/2014 2:40:49 AM PDT by Drago
I honestly don’t know, it would depend on the viral load of the droplets, mucus, vomit or other bodily fluid, plus temperature and humidity in that environment I suppose.
But, those variables can’t be known ahead of time. Her hair should be protected and covered with material that does not permit virus to permeate, as should all of her skin, nose, mouth and eyes. As described it’s an infection waiting to happen if she were to come into contact with an infectious individual who sneezed or coughed within 3 feet of her, possibly greater distance. I’d be concerned being in the same enclosure or room.
If they really believed that a person only becomes contagious when symptoms are present, they wouldn’t even MAKE a list for who this nurse came into contact with, if she isolated herself as soon as she came down with symptoms - because everybody who came into contact with her before that is (according to their claims) safe.
It's what the AREN"T telling us that should scare the hell out of every American.
I trust NONE of them.
And therein lies the answer.
Not if the rationale is to cause more disease.
Answer: TEXAS.
What a coincidence Ebola would take hold in Texas, no????
Has the girlfriend or the other people in that apartment ever been photographed? I realize they are in quarantine but not even through a window w/their permission? I believe I heard the girlfriend on audio. There’s no telling what’s going on. There’s also radio silence on the schoolchildren; more than one school...
It’s a virus that has its own RNA. It lives on a cellular level. The Sunday paper had a huge section devoted to ebola. ERs that still have curtains to me would seem to be a bad idea. Those curtains are germ magnets. In Fla, most ERs have separate rooms.
It’s going to continue to be long and difficult times. The Obama voters and fraudulent voters gave us the gift that keeps on giving.
If that is the case I think we might see a person mysteriously disappear.
What he means by extremely low chance is less than the chance of water being wet or less than the chance of the Sun rising in the East.
“I don’t think our government is telling us the whole story.”
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You would have to be Pelosi crazy to think that!
They are going to have to setup specialized teams that work for some period of time and are maintained in isolation while working. Then when their time period is up they are maintained in quarantine until appropriate time has passed. Then released to the general population when they have tested negative for the disease.
Given the above this is probably a more appropriate job for the military. They should set up field hospitals around the US to handle patients. The military is much better at setting up a rotation schedule an enforcing it than Civilian hospitals.
Ethics committees of hospitals should review whether Ebola victims should really be given access to extreme life support measures. They should be available to people enlisted to care for patients. But this is now a possible point of protocol failure (intubation and dialysis that is). Hospitals have a limited number of ventilators and kidney dialysis machines. Do you want those reused on the General patient population? Granted the internals of the machine that would come in contact with the patient are disposable. But the machine does need to be in the room if it is used on a patient. Some process needs to be set up as to when these devices can be placed back in general availability in the Hospital.
The point is a better plan than what has been put in place needs to devised. Patient encounters, gown-up and gown-down needs to be video taped and reviewed so that protocol violations can be found in near real time and addressed. Right now we are speculating there was a protocol violation (in Dallas at least) and relying on the memory of workers. Why when internet cameras can be purchased for less than $100?
Not mentioned in the coverage (that I have seen): was this nurse dedicated to this patient? When she was not gowned up did she assist any other nurses with any other patient care? What about the Doctor who saw this patient? Did he or she see any other patients at the hospital? The person cleaning the room did he or she clean the rooms of any other patient? Just some questions I would want answered if I were a patient in a facility treating Ebola.
The only bodily fluids thing is BS
saw a headline earlier that said this nurse had extensive contact with the patient.
how can extensive contact = low risk?
Thanks for the kind thoughts. Unfortunately, our country is ran by leftist traitors who have no nationalism and pride for the USA. Also, about 50% of our population has no problem with this. We need a modern day William Wallace in the worst way.
UK specifically London won’t be absent a patient testing positive for long, given the air traffic. Like the hooting leftists in the US having fun at the expense of Texas, it won’t last very long. People are stupid, and it goes on display when some disliked “other” has a problem. Hopefully the rest of the country and the rest of the world will benefit from the missteps in Dallas and they will not be repeated.
Per the Website “DOTNEWS.COM”, the name of the Ebola-infected nurse is Nina Pham.
This just hit Twitter, and the website is crashing.
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