Posted on 10/17/2014 9:48:51 AM PDT by maggief
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – On Friday morning Baylor Hospital in Dallas confirmed a patient with ‘ebola similar symptoms’ also triggered a positive verbal screening questionnaire.
Although a positive test has not been confirmed, sources says it’s not unusual to have a patient screen positive considering the wider net for ebola now over Dallas.
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CBSDFW retweeted J.D. Miles J.D. Miles @jdmiles11 5m #Breaking I’m told a number of patients screening positive but testing negative for #Ebola Baylor patient transferred out of caution
CBSDFW retweeted Bud Gillett Bud Gillett @Bud_Gillett 11m Baylor Hosp confirms a patient with Ebola similar symptoms also triggered a positive verbal screening questionnaire. Was moved to Presby
CBSDFW retweeted KRLD KRLD @KRLD 13m #BREAKING Another patient in North Texas has ‘screened positve’ for #ebola. - no test confirmed yet. Listen live: bit.ly/OOuX6X
Seal the borders! Take America back!
Ping!
Thank G-d we now have an Ebola Czar! Send in the lawyers and poll takers! That will stop it!
Obola can now blame the Ebola czar for everything
Journalists and editors have GOT to be more careful with their wording.
So many of the symptoms are just like the flu! Just wait, it is going to get much worse in the next few months.
Yes, it is a good idea to get the flu shot yourself to reduce the chance you get mistaken for an Ebola person later on.
I’m curious to find out whatever happened to those workers who were power washing the vomit off the apartment complex sidewalk and the lady who walked over the diluted vomit in her flip-flops. I bet you anything she is shaking in her flip-flops as we type! Are they being monitored?
You are right. Not sure what to make of this. So do they have it or not?
“Screening positive” means that this person met the qualifications in the screening - which Duncan did, as well - but the screening actually got to the medical staff and not just to the insurance and payment department.
It does NOT mean that the person has “tested positive,” and I think it’s a bit early for the hysteria to break out. We’ve got to get a grip, folks. Probably about 99% of these things are overreactions motivated by earlier underreactions, motivated by fear of lawsuits (and not genuine health concerns).
Great let’s shut down all the major Dallas-area hospitals because it takes about one patient each
I’m a living ad for flu shots. Eight years ago, my “yearly” flu progressed into pneumonia and I about checked out. Since then, I’ve been faithful in my annual flu shot and I haven’t even had a hint of flu.
Updated:
A source at Baylor Hospital Dallas says the patient came to the Emergency Room through a private entrance and went straight to isolation.The source says Baylor transferred the person to Presbyterian Hospital a short while later.
A spokeswoman at Presbyterian says the hospital does not have a transfer patient but could not say whether the patient was treated and released.
“Screen” means they answered questions (such as if they were from Africa or had traveled there) that indicated there might be a risk that whatever brought them to the emergency room (such as a fever, vomiting, etc.) could be Ebola.
The testing hasn’t been done yet, so it’s not positive, just that the risk factors are there.
I’m assuming ‘screening positive’ includes either recent travel to W Africa or contact with someone who had though.
What is that? - 'I feel like crap', or something?
Seems like a pretty broad statement to call it a positive trigger based on a questionnaire.
Now, if he answered that he had just returned from Liberia from a necrophiliac convention ... Ok, I'll give them that as a reasonable basis for a 'positive trigger'...
They have symptoms that could be Ebola and answered ‘yes’ to the questions. The patient is being tested.
No lab confirmation yet.
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