Notice he is equipped with his favorite toy, golf clubs.
Posted on 10/18/2014 4:43:36 AM PDT by huldah1776
***snip*** In recent days, the number of people who have been asked to monitor themselves for symptoms has been steadily growing, especially among healthcare workers who were involved in the original treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died from Ebola on Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
As of Friday, a pool of about 1,000 people are being watched for symptoms, have been asked to monitor themselves or have been urged to check with a counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group includes a handful of people who have been ordered into quarantine, a larger group that is being closely watched with temperatures taken at least daily and a much larger group of travelers who may haven flown on a Frontier Airlines jetliner used at some point by an Ebola patient traveling with a low-grade fever.
None of those being monitored, regardless of their group, has exhibited any Ebola symptoms.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Bummer.
Also, is this the planned October surprise? How's that working out for ya, Obola? Even the college kids are disgusted.
Bummer.
With over 1,000 new arrivals a week from ebola infected countries in Africa, the numbers being watched will soonn skyrocket.
Our government does not even have the talent to assemble a simple insurance sign-up website, who will handle the logistics of tracking the thousands of possible contacts?
One of these machines was sitting idle at Duncan’s hospital and not being used because of federal government red tape.
Well, come to think of it, the NSA should have some experience. We know the CIA hasn’t had a lot of practice lately with the withdrawals, but Jarrett should know who has the most experience and then fire them to hire a crony commie with no experience.
This could be a natural Stalin move. Who flies? Not those who vote democrat. I want to know who is being tracked for ebola and their political affiliation. double blind, of course. No need to imprison anyone.
Well if this doesn’t stop none of us will be alive, so it might be working out for him very well.
One must wonder what sort of issues there would be abut equipment designed to test for Ebola - can't be any less accurate that the "experts" running the show.
I’m sure we have many thousands of cases the media is not telling us about. I’ve said it before: Google the word arson. Lots of it is going on in the inner cities. I think it’s Ebola houses being eliminated (officially or unofficially) after the residents die from the disease.
Ooooh, I like that law.
But at least a competent government could hire the professionals required to operate the health web site or CDC division. The problem we have is that our government is almost entirely corrupted. People with talent refuse to work for the government because they know being talented is a threat to the corrupt.
Notice he is equipped with his favorite toy, golf clubs.
What is the current status of the Duncan family members he was living with? Oddly, no word on it that I know of.
ObamaCare is not about patient health coverage.
ObamaCare is about crony-socialism’s medical bureaucrats’ and providers’ coverage for their positions and power - covering up their corruption, inefficiency and incompetence.
The insertion of EBOLA into the USA by Obama’s hand, ie his policies disregarding public safety (putting it mildly) - a terrorist act if anybody else did it - is a model of how ObamaCare *for medical providers* works.
ObamaCAIR-philes regimentally (”like-minded”) and ruth-less-ly stick to the proscribed edicts, numbers, and statistics of The Party as a mindless gluten.
There is no warfighting. Despite the fact, that EBOLA is in category “B” of NBC warfare, and this *is* war - you either kill EBOLA or it kills you.
To win this war, you must be flexible and willing to exercise outside of officialdom’s constructs, and not restrict yourself to Party orders.
In other words, you have to use the valuable scientific information plus your daring to not get stuck where The Party tries to put you. You must show initiative. That includes daring to be free to express your considerations.
But *that* - your freedom to operate for your and our common defense - is what the Obama Administration is now working to limit; and *that* is why Klain was chosen to be a dictator of information management (ostensibly Ebola “czar”).
Dr. Bob Garry, a scientist at Tulane University, is working harder than ever to get one possible solution—a rapid diagnostic test approved.[Regarding the present, lengthy waiting for symptoms to show ... and the current tests]
It’s the breakdown in care caused by delay that Garry and his team are hoping to fix. The scientists began working in West Africa roughly 10 years ago on another fever called Lassa. Over the course of a few years, they developed a rapid diagnostic test that allowed doctors to give patients a diagnosis on the spot. When the first cases of Ebola began popping up in West Africa, Garry and his team began “fortifying” existing labs they had in the area. In the creation of the Lassa fever test strips, they had also made a similar, but separate, Ebola test. But without any presence of Ebola in the region until this year, they were unable to test them until now.
The value of the rapid diagnostic test lies in its simplicity. It consists of a small white lancet, which requires just a small drop of blood. In 15 minutes or less, a positive or negative line will appear on the test, indicating Ebola positive or negative. "They work like pregnancy tests except its blood," says Garry.
“What our tests would permit one to do is to basically see if a person has Ebola on the spot,” Garry tells me. “They are not perhaps as sensitive as a PCR. That’s a very sophisticated test, but they don’t really have to be. What we’re most interested in doing is coming out with a test that could detect when someone is infectious, immediately.”
The other Quick-Test is the Film Array being used by the U.S. Military.
[M]ilitary news site Defense One reports that doctors could have simply turned on a toaster-sized device called the Film Array and gotten a diagnosis within minutes.
US military doctors sent to West Africa to combat the disease are already using the Film Array, which has more than 90 percent accuracy, according to Defense One.
From BioFire Diagnostics page:http://www.biofiredx.com/about-us/
THE FASTEST WAY TO BETTER RESULTS.
The FilmArray is an FDA-cleared multiplex PCR system that integrates sample preparation, amplification, detection and analysis. It requires just a few minutes of hands-on-time and its turnaround time is just about an hour, giving you faster results which may lead to better patient care.
The FilmArray now has three FDA-cleared panels – the Respiratory Panel, the Blood Culture Identification Panel, and the Gastrointestinal Panel. Together, these panels test for more than a hundred pathogens. Thus, FilmArray is not only the fastest way to better results; it’s the fastest way to more results.
Folks need to start asking themselves a question: How involved do I want the Federal Government to be in the domestic control of a nascent outbreak?
For instance, the State of Texas (Rick Perry) has enormous and established legal authority to impose testing and quarantine of all contacts.
While the Feds should stand trial and be hung for not controlling the ports of entry, Texas is at least as criminally negligent in not locking down ALL contacts.
It's like Mr. Tenth Amendment (Rick Perry) has turned over all responsibility and authority to Washington DC.
WTF?
who is watching the watchers?
Pretty much sums up what I was aiming at, in my reply 14.
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