Quest Diagnostics To Doctors: Not Accepting Ebola Blood, Patients (Now LabCor,too)

CBS4 Denver ^ | 10-15-2014 | Brian Maass

[tcrlaf]

CBS4 has learned that Quest Diagnostics, the nation’s largest diagnostic lab company, has told doctors, hospitals and health care providers nationwide the company will not accept blood samples suspected of being infected with Ebola; and will not knowingly allow any patients suspected of having Ebola into Quest offices.

In a message sent Oct. 11 to hospitals and doctors, Quest Diagnostics said, “Patients with known or suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever should not be referred to Quest Patient Service Centers or Quest In-Office Phlebotomists for specimen collections of any type.”

CBS4 contacted Wendy Horst, a Quest spokesperson. She said, “We have informed clinicians that Quest Diagnostics does not provide Ebola testing and that we recommend that they refer to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for information about testing for this virus in the United States.”

[catnipman]

thank you!!!

[Christie at the beach]

I love that little kid because it’s so perfect.

Thanks for posting.

[Nip]

And so it begins.

For any pathogen to become a pandemic your medical infrastructure has to collapse.

In Africa the local doctors and nurses have begun to leave the Ebola wards. The reasons may vary but the bottom line is a reduction in quality care and the matching increase in infectious patients.

Medical labs, worldwide, will have to make similar decisions - keep their existing personnel and patient base safe. Or, run the risk of aiding the spread of Ebola with its 70% +/- mortality rate. How could anyone order them to accept Ebola specimen with that kind of penalty for a “breach in protocall”?

[Califreak]

Yeeeesss!

(I’m hypothyroid & my labs are overdue)

[catnipman]

“People who think like that WOULD try to bring Ebola to the US. “

Guess they never read “The Stand” then, because no one is immune to doomsday viruses no matter how “master of the universe” they were beforehand.

[catnipman]

“At least you spelled it right.”

I’ve got a friend who works for them. BTW, my friend says that in general LabCorp tests are inferior to Quest Diagnostics, and I’ve got doctors who feel the same way.

[pierrem15]

I was explaining this to my wife this afternoon: almost no normal hospital can handle Level 4 Biohazard.

This is the same level as smallpox, and biowar agents.

The CD and Obama are basically implying that every city has a Fort Detrick or CDC type facility to contain an outbreak, which is utter nonsense.

[CGASMIA68]

O-Bola and E-Boma

[Texas Songwriter]

Threatens the health of their employees. Lawsuits eminent. Not gonna take that chance. Don’t blame them. Doctors will follow. They will not put their children at risk for their chosen profession. Exit visas eminent for health care workers of all stripes. The walls are going to be torn down before our very eyes.

[Gene Eric]

>> And flu season is right around the corner.....

Which would likely facilitate the spread of Ebola.

[Texas Songwriter]

This may go pretty far in anchoring a single payor system and compulsory participation by health care workers or out the door to reeducation camps.

[Kozak]

Thats great news, sounds promising, read the poster abstract. Now we need to know what the tests specific sensitivity and specificity is in order for it to be clinically useful.

[silverleaf]

I read that many of the phlebotomists in Liberia are dead. Maybe that is why US troops have been ordered to draw blood.

[CPT Clay]

Hmmm, the plot thickens.

[Charles Martel]

(BTW, I’m starting to switch my view of Obama from an evil genius deliberately trying to destroy our country to an evil fool who’s destroying us from total incompetence, because no one in their right mind would deliberately let Ebola into this country like he did.)

Nothing that Obama does can be fully attributed to him, we're dealing with the Democrat/Progressive/Communist "hive mind". They won't restrict travel because they think it's wrong that America has been effective in destroying the problems that still persist elsewhere on the globe - their groupthink is that it's about time that we were knocked back down to the level of Liberia, et al. You can see that thread running through all of their policies - especially *foreign* policy - and no matter how you slice it, the evil is clearly present.

It's easiest to remember that despite votes and sworn oaths (both of which are suspect), this guy and his handlers do not work for the American people. Viewed through that filter, everything they do makes sense.

[longtermmemmory]

he is there because his party, the National Democrats, put him there.

voting Democrat kills.

voting Democrat kills jobs.

voting Democrat kills loved ones.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Really? The shame of it is early on I preferred LabCorp, because they were so efficient and nice, and never had to wait.

Of course, the 1st one I experienced took over the small local lab I loved so much. They were great. Don’t know about the test quality, but loved the service. Then LabCorp came in and took that, then expanded a bit in our area.

I go to Quest now a lot because it is right next to our hospital, where I have been spending a lot of time the last year. (Actually there are 2, causing much, much confusion.) The one right attached is in a “bunker”, so I think lots of people don’t realize it’s there and you can get in and out very fast. My husband insists on making appointments, though. Not I. Don’t like that - I have enough appointments. Walk-in for me, which is another reason I liked LabCorp so much originally.

[the OlLine Rebel]

And it’s about time we start blaming the “American People” (TM) who vote for this commie crap! Ultimately, it is THEIR fault!

I’m sick of everyone diverting and making it all about the elected, not the electors (per se). They had to get there somehow, right?

[VerySadAmerican]

I would imagine all this is making UPS and FedEx drivers nervous.

There procedures are great ideas for terrorists. Drop some tainted blood into the after hours bin.

[familyop]

"Threatens the health of their employees. Lawsuits eminent. Not gonna take that chance. Don’t blame them. Doctors will follow. They will not put their children at risk for their chosen profession. Exit visas eminent for health care workers of all stripes. The walls are going to be torn down before our very eyes."

Well, we'll be left with taking care of ourselves, then, won't we. I'm an American originally from the Midwest and South in nature--not so European. Did the Civil Defense Medical Self Help course in school in south Texas long ago and was a soldier later on (long ago). Circumcised in an American hospital in the '50s!

I respect the teachings of our elders, who've passed away. I'm against the apparently universal vulgarities and false accusations in public political and social speech--all of it. The current bipartisan, political bandwagon doesn't scare me. The crazy talk from the sponsored media doesn't scare me, either. Let's see how that does compared to the contemporary paradigm of fascism in all of the similar sides of politics and culture.

Let the debt/revenue-guzzling, big shot, political class continue to prepare to murder their more impoverished neighbors of our former true private sector, while I try to be good to my neighbors (especially the nicey-nicey, goody-two-shoes ones including the poor).

The corrupt, bipartisan pillars of our communities rob us then tell us to move away, if we don't like it. Let those of un-American culture leave my country instead. Let them go back to their homes with their leaders like Mussolini and Hitler. Let those who want to learn to be real Americans stay and learn from men like me without regard to their former nationalities.

My only fear is the fear of my One Almighty and Only G-d.