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.
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.
There are 25 nurses who have quarantined themselves in THPH to keep away from their families.
There is one group who have been allowed to come in to the command center and work in their offices but because they were/still on the monitor list can’t treat patients.
THPH still hasn’t reopened their ER or ICU and the hospital has only 1/3 of it’s normal patient load.