Background: The document "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in U.S. Hospitals" was changed yesterday afternoon. The section titled "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)" was deleted, and replaced with "PPE Recommendations are forthcoming".
Prior to yesterday afternoon, this section recommended "gown, gloves, a mask and a face shield" (that's what the nurses at Dallas Presbyterian used). On Thursday, the Dallas Morning News ran a front page story saying CDC had changed their recommendations to better protect health care workers. On Friday, the New York Times said the same. This claim, that the recommendations had changed, had been repeated on CBSNBCABCCNN many times. And yet, at of 0700 yesterday, no changes.
Then, yesterday afternoon, the recommendations section did change - to "PPE Recommendations are forthcoming". That's still what it says as of 0900 today.
Obviously, there's a disagreement somewhere in Atlanta, or between Atlanta and 200 Independence Avenue, or between there and the White House. It cannot be that CDC would take down their recommendations before they were ready to replace them.
I bet they are hung up on body suits. If they recommend body suits (as they should), then they falsify their claim that "every US hospital should be prepared to care for Ebola patients". And if that claim is falsified, then the free entry of West Africans to the USA is exposed as dangerous. And THAT will cause a problem.
Stay tuned.
Thanks Jim, you have more gumption closely following it than I do, I’m burnt.