Posted on 10/01/2014 11:47:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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The Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulance crew who transported the man infected with Ebola to the hospital have tested negative for the Ebola virus, according to the City of Dallas.
The City of Dallas said Tuesday that the crew took all safety precautions and was isolated and tested following the discovery.
The three members of the ambulance crew are restricted to their homes while their conditions are observed and while the virus' incubation period passes....
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcdfw.com ...
So we pull the ambulance from service and quarantine the crew, but are still are accepting flights to and from West Africa. Yeah, makes perfect sense.
Blood test?...incubation period?....anybody?
“Nip it” LOL very good!!!
I’m not sure isolating them at home is a good idea, unless they live alone. They are still thinking it’s not contagious until symptoms, and I’m betting that’s not really the case.
Isolating at home could well be infecting other family members.
They call it “leaning forward”
The mayor actually says that in the interview.
This whole thing is not making sense at almost every level.
It is like a nuclear reaction. It will just go on.
Sorry, I’m not up to speed on “leaning forward”. Please explain.
Credible projections
http://cpid.iri.columbia.edu/ebola.html
Be sure to scroll to the right for charting options
CDC persons (Director?) today were saying they were “leaning forward” blah blah. I was being sarcastic because I think it’s been handled cavalierly.
So you say this with a straight face:
1. African guy with an accent shows up at some Dallas hospital....throwing up in turbo fashion...fever...and he just gets some marginal medication and sent back home without asking about his recent travels.
2. You announce that you are checking folks coming into the US with a temperature device....which will tell you in an effective way if they have Ebola or not.
I would agree...there’s no real common sense here. Sending US military off to Africa on a mission without an end-date (likely to continue for decades). I don’t see how you allow anyone arriving from outside of the US to enter....without an Ebola test administered and likely forcing everyone to remain in some Airport quarantine area for twenty-four hours as a minimum.
It is like a logarithmic growth phase of bacteria in a petri dish. Sort of like government spending. If this is unable to be checked and stopped all bets are off. The hospitals will be overwhelmed. The economy will fail. It will be unlike anything in the past 1000 years. We shall see if it can be stopped or checked.
>> 1. African guy with an accent shows up at some Dallas hospital....throwing up in turbo fashion...fever...and he just gets some marginal medication and sent back home without asking about his recent travels.
It’s even more ridiculous. He tells them he just came from Liberia. This raised no alarms. Then they gave him antibiotics. Antibiotics combat bacteria but do nothing for viruses ( http://www.cdc.gov/GetSmart/antibiotic-use/antibiotic-resistance-faqs.html/#why-bacteria-resist ). They completely missed that he had a viral infection.
“Leaning forward” as in “leaning forward in the saddle” means to think and look ahead and take some preemptive measures to counter a potentially serious situation rather than just reacting as the situation unfolds.
A rider leans forward so as to not fall off the horse when it has to jump over an unforeseen obstacle or dangerous thing along the trail.
Also the MSNBC liberal motto which I think was the intent of usage.
Ha...it’s like “leading from behind” in reverse....
He probably didn’t have insurance. They didn’t want to fund his care so they didn’t really look into his condition. Just determined it wasn’t life threatening and send home. They do it every day. Hospitals go broke paying for people’s care.
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