Posted on 10/24/2014 7:56:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So much for Ebola being under control, limited to Western Africa, and not a threat to the American homeland. There is now a new confirmed case in New York City, with three others in quarantine. Doctor Craig Spencer, recently confirmed with Ebola, works for Doctors Without Borders, and was providing medical and humanitarian relief to Ebola victims in Western Africa.
He returned to the US from Guinea almost a week before exhibiting first symptoms of infection. Arriving at JFK airport on October 17, he cleared the CDC’s protocol for “enhanced screening of all returning travelers from W. Africa.” No quarantine, either voluntary or mandatory. He is just one of many going through similar “enhanced screenings” at US airports on a daily basis.
Testifying before Congress last week, Obama administration officials, “admitted that 100 to 150 West Africans from Ebola infected areas are entering the US every day.” How many others might be in the early stages of Ebola infection, similar to Dr. Spencer?
Missing is the common sense role of quarantine. Not a novel idea. Quarantines were used in the 1700’s in New York for new immigrants, “To prevent the bringing in and spreading of infectious distempers in the colony.” Within three weeks, this infection plays itself out and those quarantined can be released with a high probability of non-infection. Why wasn’t Dr. Spencer in a quarantine, especially after having returned from the “hot zone” in West Africa, himself working with Ebola patients? As a physician, shouldn’t he have known that he could be infectious? Why not self-exile for a few weeks fulfilling his duty to “first do no harm”?
What about the hundred plus entering the US every day who are not physicians and cannot be expected to know better?
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“Anyone coming from the hot zone needs to be REALLY quarantined for 45 days, not asked to pinky swear to stay off public transportation and no bowling or soup runs.”
Exactly!
This voluntary isolation is BS, virtually no one will comply.(Exception for Nurse Pham)
Expecting foreign travelers to limit their contacts and travel once here is folly.
There is no penalty for non compliance, so there will be no compliance.
Indeed....
My daughter is on her hospital’s ebola response team. They have already been told that they will be locked down in the hospital not only during care of any patient but for at least 4 weeks after.
She is the dolt (came out of the SF Bay Area where she started her dubious ‘news’ career) that went ot west africa with a news crew and one of the camermen came down with ebola. The whole news team was put on self quarantine so because she is so smart and self entitled she took them all out in public to get food.
No that nurse was Amber Vinson....the one who lawyered up
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah, that’s her, but I believe it was Snyderman herself who had a compatriot run into a restaurant to get some soup for her, not the whole crew.
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Protocol in place or not, this doctor has a masters in public health. He should know and understand communicable diseases as well as anyone.
And you are wrong. Vinson went to Cleveland. It was the lab staffer who handled the samples that went on the cruise. You need a program pamphlet to keep up on the players at this point.
Which is what I said......A lab tech is NOT a nurse
You may have said that, but what you wrote is that Vinson was the nurse (in the post you replied to) “who ruined a cruise for 4,000 people,” which is not true.
You apparently lost track of who was saying what on the thread....that quote about the cruise came from ‘bgill’ not I.
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