Posted on 10/13/2014 1:55:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
Right now, I’m not as afraid of Ebola as I am of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The agency held a press conference Monday to provide an update on the transmission of Ebola to a nurse that cared for Thomas Eric Duncan.
After listening to this update, I have to say, I am more convinced than ever that CDC director, Dr. Tom Frieden is not the right person for the job. And I say this because this latest press conference consisted of him telling a room of reporters what anyone who has ever dealt with Ebola in the past should have known.
Unlike other disease-causing microbes, such as influenza, Ebola virus has not changed much since its discovery in 1976. The virus that is causing the West African epidemic, and subsequent cases popping up in other parts of the world, is the virtually same virus that has been around for almost 40 years.
Frieden listed a number of new procedures the CDC is considering implementing into the protocol for health care workers treating potential Ebola patients in U.S. hospitals. Those would include evaluating the protective gear being used by health care workers, having CDC inspectors observe personnel as they remove personal protective equipment outside of infected patients’ rooms, conducting full-body spray downs to decontaminate health care workers, and looking at whether or not medical equipment such as ventilators and dialysis machines – sometimes necessary for treating Ebola patients – can harbor the deadly virus after use.
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Obama is forcing this Obola issue to fast track his gun grabbing Surgeon General candidate that is apparently, and currently, not going to make it.
Tom Frieden should resign for blaming other people for situations that got dumped on them on real short notice. I honestly doubt that the Dallas Hospital had much advance notice to recognize or train people to deal with Ebola. They also weren’t able to do much for Duncan considering the delay in recognizing what his problem was.
Frieden is a politician. Politicians, especially those who can be used by and are willing to lie for their puppet masters are dangerous to the health of the country. I’m with Dr. Manny, Frieden needs to resign. Frieden lost any credibility he might have had when he started pimping open borders for the good of west Africa’s economies. He’ll go down in history as the father of Ebola in America. Ebola is here and it’s here to stay. JMO.
I know several nurses. None of them know much about it and have only gotten a one page letter telling them to be aware and what symptoms to look for.
Looks like CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden has been exposed to OBOLA Politicitus. We’ll have to keep an eye on him.
Absolutely, from the first presser he gave he sounded like a medical Baghdad Bob and he’s done nothing as yet to change that.
Dr. Frieden is the reincarnation of Lysenko. He is an Obama acolyte who is making policy, not with good science, but adhering to the one world/no borders ideology of Obama. Frieden has not and cannot explain rationally why allowing direct and indirect commercial air service to West Africa enhances the health and security of the American people. People who hold politically correct delusions should not hold scientific positions.
“Dr” Frieden was horrified by individuals having the
right to privately smoke cigarettes.
But he imports Ebola at 150 risks/day in his
lust to start pandemics in his, and Obola’s, 57 states.
And he probably can’t find his emails.
I agree with you but Frieden won’t resign since he has a big part to play in the “final solution.”
Anyway, there's an infinite amount of room under the O-bus, and I presume Dr. Frieden will be living there shortly.
Frieden’t cavalier attitude regarding the risk to nurses is nothing short of reprehensible.
Though breaking these protocols could indeed cause a person to become infected, it is equally likely that airborne aerosols are a cause. Take a look at the information in this thread, from a very credible source*:
To summarize, for the following reasons we believe that Ebola could be an opportunistic aerosol-transmissible disease requiring adequate respiratory protection: •Patients and procedures generate aerosols, and Ebola virus remains viable in aerosols for up to 90 minutes. •All sizes of aerosol particles are easily inhaled both near to and far from the patient. •Crowding, limited air exchange, and close interactions with patients all contribute to the probability that healthcare workers will be exposed to high concentrations of very toxic infectious aerosols. •Ebola targets immune response cells found in all epithelial tissues, including in the respiratory and gastrointestinal system. •Experimental data support aerosols as a mode of disease transmission in non-human primates.
Risk level and working conditions suggest that a PAPR will be more protective, cost-effective, and comfortable than an N95 filtering facepiece respirator.
CIDRAP: "We Believe There Is Scientific Evidence Ebola Has The Potential To Be Airborne"
(* -- "The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP; "SID-wrap") is a global leader in addressing public health preparedness and emerging infectious disease response. Founded in 2001, CIDRAP is part of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota." )
This applies to Anthony Fauci, too, who I had immense respect for - in the 1980s.
We’re from the CDC and we’re here to help.
Thanks for linking this.
Being CIDRAP is part of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota I believe it’s credible and their analysis sounds more than reasonable.
To the Christian Problem.
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