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Exclusive: Ebola didn’t have to kill Thomas Eric Duncan, nephew says
Dallas Morning News ^ | October 14, 2014 | by Josephus Weeks

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola
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To: capydick

I can see the case: Duncan Family VS Ebola Virus.


41 posted on 10/14/2014 5:30:40 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ebola did not HAVE to kill Duncan. But it did anyway.


42 posted on 10/14/2014 5:31:33 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: yldstrk

Ha! Good one and I bit it will fly right over some heads!


43 posted on 10/14/2014 5:32:11 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and It's a GREAT life!)
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To: MomofMarine

I have no sympathy for him either.

Aids patients have been prosecuted for intentionally spreading the disease-—this guy is no different.

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44 posted on 10/14/2014 5:32:50 PM PDT by Mears
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To: yldstrk

Jesse Jackson School of Shakedowns


45 posted on 10/14/2014 5:35:10 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: MarkeyD
Ebola didn’t have to, it just felt like it.

Yes, Ebola felt like it, because everyone knows Ebola is racist.

46 posted on 10/14/2014 5:35:51 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ebola’s rassis!


47 posted on 10/14/2014 5:40:27 PM PDT by glock rocks (Never have so few, come so far, for so little - Alton Brown)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That bastard didn’t have to fly here and contaminate possibly hundreds of innocent Americans and a handle of ungrateful illegals.


48 posted on 10/14/2014 5:41:38 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Yeah, JJ sure looks ready for a ‘tune up’. Maybe time to call up his regular punch, FOX News contributor chippie Tamara Holder, for a quick one.......


49 posted on 10/14/2014 5:42:09 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and It's a GREAT life!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You willingly allow a virus, that can wipe out mankind to continent how because you are a selfish s.o.b.
I will put the bullet in your head


50 posted on 10/14/2014 5:44:34 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


if its was diagnosed as the flu that is how it is treated. So this man of color with no health ins was given medical treatment.

Had Duncan said I’ve been exposed to ebola then boom instant isolation. Its up to the patient to provide all needed info.

The more this family speaks the more I depise them.


51 posted on 10/14/2014 5:44:34 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: GeronL

The so called “nephew” was speaking in Ebola Ebonics...


52 posted on 10/14/2014 5:46:17 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A few questions for this guy:

1) Did Duncan falsify his exit interview in Liberia regarding contact with an Ebola patient?

2) Were any of his family members aware of any contact?

3) Who paid for his travel to the US?

4) Who is going to pay the bills for his medical care?

53 posted on 10/14/2014 5:50:15 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was Duncan covered by 0bamacare?


54 posted on 10/14/2014 5:52:16 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their error set the wheels in motion for my uncle’s death and additional Ebola cases, and their ignorance, incompetence or indecency has created a national security threat for our country.
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Good grief he writes this as though Ebola just jumped on the wonderful Thomas Eric Duncan as he was walking home from the local church in Dallas..


55 posted on 10/14/2014 5:52:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ebola didn’t kill him. His own stupidity did. “Duh, I don’t know. I was in Ebola infested country. Duh, gee maybe I got it. No maybe I lie about being with someone who died of Ebola and just see what happens. Doh! “


56 posted on 10/14/2014 5:53:48 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I was being facetious


57 posted on 10/14/2014 5:58:36 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I was under the impression Joe Weeks was the husband/partner of Duncan’s sister,....making him a brother-in-law,...not that familial ties appear to be very strong in that family. He could be Obama’s next of kin.


58 posted on 10/14/2014 6:01:26 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Beowulf9

Not ‘back’ to US.

Liberian national, lived in Liberia, this was his first ever trip to the US.

Apparently his whole famn dambly abandoned him there.


59 posted on 10/14/2014 6:01:29 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The deceased denied being exposed to Ebola in his first hospital visit.. so nephew please explain that. Please. He knew he had it when he left, and he could have told someone there of his exposure. But, no.

So now we get the damn race card pulled, just for kicks. This is not why he wasn’t treated nephew- he lied the whole way. And not being able to fathom anything more than a fever and some breathing issues they did the usual— go home, bed rest and take these antibiotics for prophylaxis vs. airborne infection. Standard care, nephew. For blacks, whites, greens and tans.


60 posted on 10/14/2014 6:02:14 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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