Posted on 08/08/2014 6:52:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
There are 22 hospital beds capable of treating patients infected by the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.
Designed to completely isolate a patient and prevent further spread of a disease, they are located in places like Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, or the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, or the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana.
Ten of them are in the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care unit in Omaha.
The Omaha center for treating infectious diseases entered “de facto standby” late last week
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If your friend works in that hospital, keep in mind it is one of the very few with the proper equipment. Likely safer there than anywhere else.
Keep in mind that they haven’t brought anyone there yet, it is just that the hospital has ten of the twenty two beds which are properly set up for the sort of isolation the disease requires. For now, the two confirmed and known cases are at Emory (as far as we know).
Wanna bet they have gag orders?
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. We now have a thoroughly corrupt and criminal government.
And I believe many people on our side have death threats. They can make noises but can’t cross the line.
very cool model !
Mosquitos do not carry or transmit Ebola. Many Ebola outbreaks have occurred when people found and ate a dead animal (usually a monkey or ape) in the forest. Bats are thought to be the usual host of Ebola; monkeys, apes, and humans can get Ebola from eating bats.
Exactly. The danger of Ebola spreading is not from a patient in an isolation unit, but from a person who is sick, unaware he or she has Ebola, and interacting with other people.
For example, if someone who is feeling a little sick were to go to a public place and vomit, anyone standing near enough to have bits of vomit splash on them or even breath droplets of vomit would be exposed. Whoever cleans up the mess will be exposed, and people handling the trash where the clean-up materials were thrown away could be exposed. Someone having diarrhea in a public toilet could expose the next few people using the toilet, since the act of flushing the toilet sends droplets into the air as far as 6 feet away. Plus, any residues of diarrhea remaining on the toilet could remain infectious afterwards, maybe for a few hours.
I could list many other scenarios where Ebola could spread. They all would involve an infected person who has not yet presented for medical care. There is also some risk early in the medical care process, when medical personnel do not yet suspect Ebola and so expose themselves.
As a doctor and I’m assuming from your screen name you is one don’t you think we are in more danger from an outbreak of the Spanish flu or the H1N9 than Ebola? Just curious.
Doc, I have a dumb question. These ebola patients, their waste fluids, some (needles, bloody linens) goes I assume into biohazard bags but does other like fecal waste go into the regular sewage system? Just wondering since there are always stories of fecal matter having too high a count in drinking water systems (and boil water alerts after) how would they handle that if it got into municipal water supplies since they treat waste water and then some goes back into municipal supplies?
“Mosquitos do not carry or transmit Ebola. Many Ebola outbreaks have occurred when people found and ate a dead animal (usually a monkey or ape) in the forest. Bats are thought to be the usual host of Ebola; monkeys, apes, and humans can get Ebola from eating bats.”
Thx.
Sorry folks, I’m not a doctor. My handle reflects a nickname I picked up while serving in the Navy.
Nah, the 22 are for the proles. The elites have more than enough. I guarantee Congress has many more available to them 24/7 and the POTUS has enough for him and the Cabinet and their families and none of them would be available to the us proles...
The two people brought to the US are medical people, who knew they were treating Ebola patients.
What happens when there are 23, or 100 patients? They'll still likely be sent to the centers with the trained staff, and attempts will be made to isolate them, but the degree of protection for the staff, and others in the hospital will be lower. If they are sent to other facilities, with less well trained and equipped staffs, the risk will be higher yet.
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