Posted on 10/08/2014 11:24:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* Thomas Eric Duncan died at 7:51am on Wednesday after receiving no potentially lifesaving blood transfusion or ZMapp
* Five other Ebola patients treated in the U.S. are either cured or in the process of being treated
* Doctors began giving Duncan an experimental antiviral drug on Monday, but it was too late
* Hospital announced 'with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment' that Duncan died after 'fighting courageously against the insidious disease'
* Duncan exposed 48 people to the disease before he was hospitalized, including his fiancée and two of her children
* His condition took a turn for the worse this weekend and by Tuesday he was unresponsive and medically sedated
* His body still carries the disease and must now be disposed of
* CDC rules call for his remains to be wrapped in a plastic shroud and zipped up in two leak-proof bags then cremated
The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death Wednesday morning as other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus.
'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before. This is the first time,' Duncan's furious nephew Joe Weeks told ABC.
Weeks and others in Duncan's family are calling his treatment 'unfair,' after seeing other patients pulled from the brink of death in government funded evacuation planes and using life-saving blood transfusions and cutting edge drugs...
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The hospital will put a lien on any award.
Maybe some prince or barrister in Nigeria can help them out with that...
The evening news yesterday said the hospital had evaluated him for four hours. That’s a long time. Either they are counting the time he arrived to the time he left or they may have put him in an ER room for observation, set him up with some basic meds and if his vitals were fine sent him home. Either way, at some point he should have mentioned to the doctor he was just over from Liberia and his friend and neighbors were dropping like flies from Ebola. Ms. Jallah and her father were most likely sitting by his bedside, yet they never mentioned it either so they can’t blame that on the hospital.
Nothing would surprise. These folks are obviously looking for a payout and I pray the hospital doesn’t give it to them just to shut them up.
I’ve spent way too much time in ER’s, and they’re very good at triage. IF ONLY he had told them of his exposure, it would have saved a lot of heart ache, not to mention potentially, a lot of lives. Of course, it would have been most helpful had he told the LIberian authorities as he fled their nation, carrying his contaminated self to the USA and he’d have been quarantined there, to everyone’s benefit. They could possibly have begun treatment that much earlier, and he could be alive today.
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