I understand that. But this is an emergency situation that calls for emergency procedures, not business as usual. Staff can be called in from other locations or to be on call. If the powers that be - whoever they are - really want to get a handle on this, anyone with symptoms of this disease should be taken to a single location, isolated from other types of injuries or potential illnesses so as not to spread this to the general population. This disease is highly contagious and should not be treated like other common illnesses. If they want to nip it in the bud, they need to send potential patients to a single location, not spread them around the area, especially since they know that there are approximately 100 or so potential exposures in the area.
Wow, they’re really out in front of this/s
There is a huge nursing shortage right now. Many nights I dont have beds to admit all the patients that show up in the ED, not because I dont have physical beds, but because I dont have enough nurses to cover them. Add to that the fact that I doubt nurses are running to volunteer to work in an Ebola ward, and I just dont see it happening
It would be great in principle, but there is no way to keep patients from going anywhere they want. Once they are at a location, its a crapshoot whether you increase exposure by moving them to your designated Ebola hospital, or just treat them where they land
>>Staff can be called in from other locations or to be on call.
That assumes willing volunteers...which there are not.
The Director of the CDC publicly;y throwing the Presby nurse under the bus before any investigation ended any possibility of that.
>>If the powers that be - whoever they are - really want to get a handle on this, anyone with symptoms of this disease should be taken to a single location, isolated from other types of injuries or potential illnesses so as not to spread this to the general population.
They don’t, because of the political implications of 100% screen plus wide spread quarantine for foreigners means for Obama’s open borders domestic/foreign policies.
The problem is the early symptoms are fever, body ache headache, vomiting, diarrhea. The same symptoms of dozens of common illnesses we see every day in the ER and clinics. Gonna have to be a huge Facility to see them all in one place.