Posted on 10/16/2014 9:02:55 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Nina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola in Dallas, is expected to be moved to a National Institutes of Health isolation unit in Bethesda, Maryland, a federal official with direct knowledge of the plans told NBC News on Thursday.
The transfer could happen later Thursday, but the official cautioned that plans were evolving. Pham, 26, was diagnosed with the virus on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, flew to Dallas and later died.
The other nurse who contracted Ebola in Dallas, Amber Vinson, was flown on Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The Emory and NIH units are two of the four facilities in the United States that are specially equipped to handle Ebola.
Imagine if the nurses unions call for a nationwide strike.
It’s not Maryland, it’s called O’Malleyland.
Probably signed off for body usage for “experiments”......for a fee of course.
Maybe she's getting better, and the Obama admin thinks it would be bad "optics" if she survived while at a Texas hospital.
Then I guess she’ll just have to hang out at Starbucks until she can go to a place able to treat her!
GREAT!!!
That would be Fort Detrick in Frederick Maryland.
Built in 1931 , biological engineering for biological weapons went on there from 1943 to 1969.
Thought all hospitals were now ready to handle Ebola ...
The amount of disinformation and conflicting data coming from the government now is stunning.
But don’t get to depressed, you can get medical coverage under: OBOLACARE from the CONGO.
The Rats as always and so typical of them blaming the Repubs for this because of budget cuts , but yet ? Pres Obola’s Ebola zhar was caught funneling the money set aside to fight this Ebola crises to Demcrat champaign donnors.
“Thought all hospitals were now ready to handle Ebola ...
The amount of disinformation and conflicting data coming from the government now is stunning.”
That was yesterday’s current truth, this is TODAY’s CURRENT TRUTH.
Only a racist, or a homophobe would dare to remember YESTERDAY’s CURRENT TRUTH!
Signed, the US Mainstream Media
Isn’t flying this nurse (and the other one, Ms. Vinson) playing into the hand of the Duncan family narrative of “he died ‘cause he was poor and black.”?
Would the racist black Democrats in Congress be calling for a travel ban if Ebola came from a majority of whites nation like England ? Germany ? Or a majority of Asains from Japan ? China ?
That could indeed be a factor here. Also, I believe that Dallas Presbyterian burned through 80% of its' PPE caring for patient #1. Hopefully these specially designated medical facilities are better equipped (and trained).
Other possibilities:
Obola might also be interested in spreading her blood,
directly and by other means corruptly planned;
and there are US Patents to consider, too.
OK. There’s lots of partial or misinformation out there. Not that I’m the fount of all knowledge (I’m most definitely NOT), but let’s try to pick this apart in the most logical, factual and reasonable manner possible.
1) Nina Pham is being moved from Dallas Presby to the NIH. The NIH is fully capable of handling a Level 4 patient. She will likely be moved inside of a “spacesuit” like Vinson was when moved to Dallas. That SHOULD result in no further spread of the disease from Ms. Pham - though if she is at the stage of puking her guts up every 10 minutes this becomes “problematic” (IOW, a big f’ing problem). The question of WHY is she being moved is, in my mind, paramount. It could be a morale issue for those at Dallas Presby - though I doubt it, because the CDC doesn’t appear to give a rat’s ass about what anyone thinks about anything. It could be because Dallas Presby is viewed as being utterly incompetent at handling this (great news there, as it is supposed to be a 1st class facility), or because sufficient people have simply refused to take part in her treatment (also not great news...what’s going to happen if Typhoid Vinson infected 30 people, who will take care of them?). Or it could be that she’s taken a turn for the worse and it is viewed as being better for her and everyone else to move her to a truly 1st class facility. I don’t know, and even if there is a presser saying explicitly why, I won’t believe a word. It just is, and NIH is a great facility, period.
2) I really don’t believe that anyone is trying to spread it - more of the crappy decisions in any given situation can be better explained by sheer stupidity than by evil...and the stupidity in DC and elsewhere on this issue have been monumental. Add to that the venality of an administration that simply cannot EVER admit to making a bad decision, and which has to point the finger at someone else, and you have a recipe for a horror show. Oh, and add in 2 other, nakedly political, factors: a) it is less than 3 weeks to a critical election; and b) admitting that we need to guard our border for Ebola would quite naturally mean the same for EV D-68 and a host of other imported diseases...and that further threatens the power of the party in power. Not a recipe for a good ending.
3) As to the number of facilities that can handle Ebola patients safely - I’m not sure that it is even close to 20. I saw a blog article that mentioned 4: The Emory facility (down the road from the CDC) and 3 others (each of which are down the road from biowarfare facilities. I personally have a lot less confidence in ANY other hospitals other than those SPECIFICALLY set up for Level 4 biohazards from Day 1 - there are simply too many points of exposure to the public and to medical professionals when the problem of Level 4 diseases hasn’t been carefully thought about and planned for well in advance of even the construction of the hospital.
In short, no need for conspiracy theories or outright panic right now. NIH can handle this (or so I believe - and if they can’t, we’re all fooked anyway). If these 2 and Duncan are the only Ebola patients that we ever have, we’ll be OK. HOWEVER, given a bit more time, some bad luck and yet more stupidity (and there is a severe glut of very high-quality stupidity hanging over this market), THEN will be the time to panic. You’ll know to up your alert status a notch if another Ebola patient shows up and Frieden isn’t thrown under the bus.
Just my $0.02.
only an idiot or a conspirator would let the virus into a large country with 340 million and pours borders and open airports. It is far safer and easier to contain and treat in the smallest geographic area possible.
porous
Yet serious enough to put all of those exposed directly to Duncan on the no-fly list.
I have a very serious WTF issue with this blatant hypocrisy (as opposed to the more ordinary "those lying sacks of $hit are lying to us again" situation), and I'm actually a bit shocked that Typhoid Frieden hasn't yet been thrown under the bus.
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