“Yesterday, the CDC director allegedly said it was not necessary to cover hair or your shoes in treating a patient. “
He said that? OMG. That’s irresponsible. He’s an MD who did training in epidemiology/public health, and an infectious disease fellowship. None of that makes you an expert on viral transmission or biology, and certainly doesn’t qualify you as an expert on Ebola. Instead of having the CDC head giving public announcements about Ebola they should have an Ebola expert giving comments about Ebola.
CDC director on the Kelly file
13:14 Minutes
Ebola Death Rate Reaches 70% - The Kelly File
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yoh2KXLMw
He knows that is dangerously inadequate protection. When he was in West Africa recently, visiting clinics with an MSF presence, he was in head-to-toe PPE with absolutely no skin or hair exposed and doused repeatedly with chlorine—including the bottoms of his shoes.
If those shoes are tracking through body fluids or exposed to body fluids, and those shoes leave the isolation room, there is a danger that the HCW could become contaminated when touching their shoes. Same goes with uncovered hair. His guidelines are dangerous. And we are seeing that unfold right now, with this latest infection. Sadly, I doubt this is the last of the HCWs being infected in Dallas.
Frieden needs to be replaced. Now.