Posted on 10/20/2014 8:47:21 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
As America loses its cool about Ebola, we need to remember one thing: the way the virus circulated here reminds us that Ebola is actually not easily spread.
This past Sunday marked 21 days — the full incubation period for the infection — since health officials began following the close contacts of Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US. Today marks a full month since he took several flights from Monrovia to arrive in Dallas on September 20.
Thankfully none of these people, not even Duncan's fiance, got Ebola. The fact that the very people he lived with while he was running a sweaty fever and vomiting are clear of the virus is an important reminder that it is not easy to catch.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
No not really.
I’m with you on that! So is 2/3’s of the rest of the country.
I heard an interesting point differentiated yesterday about the healthcare workers in Dallas. There were or three quarantine groups depending how you want to slice it up. There was a group who saw him when he initially went to the hospital and was dismissed, a second group who saw him when he was admitted and then others who provided care after admission. Of all these people exposed, just the first group has had their quarantine lifted. I’m not sure which group the two nurses were in that have contracted the virus.
Little early to be writing this article IMO. Hope it is true.
WHAT!? What about that "concerned citizen", who knew so much more than anybody who was with him before, during, and after the visit, just by looking at newspaper websites, who filed that complaint with CPS?
How could it possibly be true that these health officials could be correct and that busybody could be wrong? This judge even admitted to being in the room! The "concerned citizen" wrote that down himself!
I guess we have nothing to worry about now, everything is just fine. Notice the change in the MSM tone since the appointment of the Ebola Czar.
and yet Obama didn’t go hug and kiss Ebola Man when he was alive...
or have the “family” to the Rose Garden for a presser...
If no-one caught it from him there is still no reason to actually import the disease. How much has Ebola already cost?
Shipping it in by plane doesn’t help.
Plus, given this administration’s habit of hiding bad news till after elections, we really won’t know much till November or later.
And we have yet to learn how many people the two health workers have infected. You have to assume at least two each. Similar to Duncan. That would be prudent.
The news this morning said the boyfriend of Nina Pham was hospitalized this morning.
“I guess we have nothing to worry about now, everything is just fine. Notice the change in the MSM tone since the appointment of the Ebola Czar.”
It doesn’t have to be right as long as everything looks right.
Ignore that man in the corner puking his guts out and convulsing, he just has the flu.
VOX, again? Crap web site.
Apparently you are unaware that the CDC just admitted their guidelines for protecting health care workers are exactly the same as they are in African Field Hospitals. Welcome to Africa.
Only two people are confirmed to have caught it from him.
Two weeks before the midterm election, you betcha all is well.
They all attended Duncan’s service a few days ago.
I think it is interesting that we are following Nigeria’s method of Ebola avoidance. They were recently mentioned as one of two African countries that are Ebola free.
That may well be the case, but for the time being, We are still far more advanced that most African countries. Not sure how long that will last......
They’re thinking too simplistic.
Ebola spreads due to it shedding in all body fluids but it invades and saturates different systems at different rates. Apparently, Duncan had a low concentration in his sweat and other fluids that he left in that apartment.
Nurses get it because end stage Ebola is systemic. Near the end it’s in all fluids in high concentrations.
Higher concentration... Higher risk.
The family got lucky.
The two infected nurses were taking care of him in intensive care, performing highly intrusive procedures like intubation at the time he was most infectious, and while wearing wildly inadequate CDC-prescribed PPE.
That's why they got it, and, so far, nobody else has.
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