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Ebola Scare Turns Dallas Hospital Into a 'Ghost Town'
ABCNews ^

Posted on 10/18/2014 5:28:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

The Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital have been moved from the building, but patients are still steering clear of the once-bustling hospital.

People have called to cancel outpatient procedures, and some have even opted not to go to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in emergency situations, ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA reports.

"It feels like a ghost town," Rachelle Cohorn, a local health care vendor who has been to the hospital recently, told WFAA. "No one is even walking around the hospital."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: czar; dallas; disease; ebola; obola; texas
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Wait until it hits the first shopping mall....or subway.
1 posted on 10/18/2014 5:29:00 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Obola promised us a few dozen cases...Thanks Obola!


2 posted on 10/18/2014 5:30:50 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

This has the potential to make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park.


3 posted on 10/18/2014 5:31:31 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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The only way to stop it would be to become raysust and ban flights from Africa.


4 posted on 10/18/2014 5:33:32 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’m sure the chances of someone else in that hospital getting ebola are practically non existent.

Maybe they should have a sale.


5 posted on 10/18/2014 5:33:46 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Red in Blue PA

How many go out next time out on the cruise ship will be interesting.


6 posted on 10/18/2014 5:34:31 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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7 posted on 10/18/2014 5:34:59 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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At this point it’s probably the safest hospital in the Dallas area.


8 posted on 10/18/2014 5:36:38 PM PDT by bonfire
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I’ll gladly go that hospital, providing the outbreak is over and Nurse Pham is back at her job.


9 posted on 10/18/2014 5:39:25 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Christmas shopping season is right around the corner.


10 posted on 10/18/2014 5:41:41 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Amazon should do **really** well this year.


11 posted on 10/18/2014 5:43:26 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Christmas shopping season is right around the corner.


12 posted on 10/18/2014 5:44:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: smokingfrog

I was reading something a few weeks back that made some sense.

The article pointed to our overreliance on antbiotics has caused hospitals to be far less antiseptic than they were 30 years ago.

It makes sense to me. Hospitals these days are full of carpet and other germ environments. They don’t even smell like hospitals anymore.


13 posted on 10/18/2014 5:44:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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When the hospital goes bankrupt, will they have standing to sue Pres Obola?


14 posted on 10/18/2014 5:47:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Just wait for flu season to start...

That could turn the average hospital into a disaster zone.

Thousands worried they have Ebola when they only have the flu... And then sprinkle in just a couple that really do have Ebola and the whole thing goes into meltdown...


15 posted on 10/18/2014 5:52:26 PM PDT by DB
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You worry too much.

We have 11 beds nationwide for the ebola infected patients.


16 posted on 10/18/2014 5:55:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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17 posted on 10/18/2014 5:56:51 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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LOL! Good one! ... God help us.


18 posted on 10/18/2014 6:14:08 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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This just shows that there aren’t THAT many sick people to begin with.


19 posted on 10/18/2014 6:15:38 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: dragonblustar

Bump!


20 posted on 10/18/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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