M-O-O-N, spells Obola
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Posted on 10/27/2014 4:57:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced recommendations for some US healthcare workers who have battled Ebola in West Africa that stop just short of the outright 21-day quarantine instituted by several states.
For asymptomatic clinicians who had a high risk for exposure to the virus in Sierra Leone, Liberia, or Guinea, perhaps because of a needle stick, "we are recommending voluntary at-home isolation" upon return to the United States, said CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, in a news conference today. These clinicians should avoid public transportation, public places such as shopping centers, public gatherings, and outside workplaces. However, the CDC is not necessarily recommending that they should be strictly homebound.
"There are non-congregant activities that could proceed, such as jogging in a park," said Dr Frieden. "If people want to travel, that would have to be done by non-commercial conveyance such as a car and…coordinated with the public health authority."
The decision to restrict the movement of healthcare workers returning from the Ebola front as well as actively monitor them in person for symptoms should be made on a case-by-case basis, he added.
The guidance, aimed at state and local health departments, comes just three days after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced mandatory 21-day quarantines of all healthcare workers arriving at two key airports from the three West African countries. The two governors expressed dissatisfaction with the self-monitoring regimen of newly arrived, unquarantined healthcare workers from West Africa that is recommended by many public health experts as well as Doctors Without Borders. Illinois also has joined the quarantine club....
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Since the suing nurse is a Dim activist with ties to the CDC, this seems to be another attempt to sway opinion.
What movie is that from?
But riding the subway, going out to restaurants,bowling, and going to the soup store is fine, right?
It doesn't inspire confidence that they seem to change their policies and procedures on a weekly basis.
Hmm, interesting thoughts, CDC, but, umm, where’s the report on how the two nurses caring for the Ebola patient in Texas contracted the disease?
Absent that report, you’re just giving us opinion. How did they get sick?
One can only hope that is also what will happen to the entire Washington establishment.
Seriously, “like someone with a needle stick???”
Sweet Mary and Joseph, if I was a healthcare worker in the hot zone and had a needle stick when caring for an Øbola patient, I’d demand isolation and round the clock monitoring and preventive care. I’d want them to learn everything they could about the potential progress of the disease, assuming I had it all the while praying that I did not. And, of course, in return for me playing the lab rat, I’d expect the very best care possible. That would be the selfless thing to do.
Good Lord, the CDC needs a thorough housecleaning.
the CDC needs to be renamed. maybe PCDC political correct disease control, or maybe CSD center for spreading disease.
Center for Disease Creation.
Who si that? I am blind as a bat and computer illiterate!
is….sorry
That is totally crazy.
The very people who have been up close to dying ebola patients should be free to go out to restaurants, go bowling and ride the subways.
It’s the world gone mad.
Let them have their lunch at the White House while in quarantine then
Next up, Ebola Lite. A lite version always comes out later if the former is a success. It helps people shed those unwanted pounds.
“Next up, Ebola Lite. A lite version always comes out later if the former is a success. It helps people shed those unwanted pounds.”
colonoscopy prep,m now with fever and ralphing.
(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
RALPHING ..... lol - haven’t heard anyone else call it that in YEARS!
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