Posted on 10/14/2014 4:33:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On Friday, Sept. 25, 2014, my uncle Thomas Eric Duncan went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He had a high fever and stomach pains. He told the nurse he had recently been in Liberia. But he was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released with some antibiotics and Tylenol.
Two days later, he returned to the hospital in an ambulance. Two days after that, he was finally diagnosed with Ebola. Eight days later, he died alone in a hospital room.
So, here’s the truth about my uncle and his battle with Ebola.
Thomas Eric Duncan was cautious. Among the most offensive errors in the media during my uncle’s illness are the accusations that he knew he was exposed to Ebola — that is just not true.
Thomas Eric Duncan was a victim of a broken system. The biggest unanswered question about my uncle’s death is why the hospital would send home a patient with a 103-degree fever and stomach pains who had recently been in Liberia.
Thomas Eric Duncan could have been saved. From his botched release from the emergency room to his delayed testing and delayed treatment and the denial of experimental drugs that have been available to every other case of Ebola treated in the U.S., the hospital invited death every step of the way.
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Had a disease with a 70% death rate. Could have totally survived that.
If the girl dies in TX, that makes Duncan a Murderer. Too bad for him.
Where did the nephew get his medical degree?
No he could have got his lying criminal butt to a hospital in Liberia right at the start and had a chance to live instead of getting on a plane and wasting precious days and weeks scheming, lying and travelling to the US...
Was he a U.S. citizen? Should have stayed in Africa.
send this guy the bill...
by delaying so long he left himself with no chance at all..
Pass it on.
Josephus Weeks is the nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan.
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what relationship makes him a “nephew” ???
hes the son of which real brother or sister of Thomas Duncan ???
He could have stayed in Liberia and avoided all these problems.
Duncan then had a good shot of being killed by gunshot.
Quicker and cleaner.
If he had no money for insurance how was it he was flying to Liberia, and back to the U.S.?
Jesse bestowed it upon him! I'd like to get a look at this kid - there is no way he wrote something this eloquent.....
You have that high of a temperature and you’re in severe pain, I’d say you’re pretty deep in already.
I’m still curious about the others who spent a week with Duncan in the apartment while he was at his most infectious.
Ebola didn’t have to kill..... and Trayvon didn’t have to jump George Zimmerman either....
more seriously.
Ebola has NO cure and the death rate in Africa has been 70-90%
What does this nephew think was supposed to happen? Was ebola supposed to bake him a pie??
It is completely true. He took a woman he knew to have fully-contagious Ebola to the hospital. Every other person who helped her got Ebola and most died. He knew damn well and the nephew is lying.
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