Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
I’m afraid the horse is already long out of the barn. How far out remains to be seen. But I doubt we will get the truth about secondary infections.
Initials match up with the homeless guy they had a time trying to locate.
Wait, who was the first possible Ebola patient put into protective custody? Are they referencing Louise and her merry band, in which case it would be the fifth possible case, or someone else?
I was thinking the same.
I think it was the homeless man that shared the ambulance.
Yes, but the article says the homeless guy is the second possible Ebola case put into forced protective custody. Who was the first?
There are protocols for decontaminating equipment that has been used with level 4 agents. The equipment is even still usable afterwards.
Duncan’s American relatives in the apartment they were ordered not to leave.
I thought that might be, but then the homeless guy is the fifth person, not the second. Unless they count the entire Louise household as one. Then again, the Louise household isn’t in protective custody at a hospital, they’re shacking up in a gated community, so I wonder if they are actually under “protective custody” of the sort described for the homeless guy.
“The equipment is even still usable afterwards.”
The hospitals lawyers and liability insurance carrier probably said otherwise...
Nothing survives the decontamination process for level 4 agents. Nothing.
Do you think that BSL4 level labs keep all of their equipment forever? Even if the equipment will not be used again after removal from the lab, it still has to be decontaminated before the scrap metal dealers will take it.
I searched and could not find out where she was on holiday. That tidbit of info would be good to know.
BSL 4 labs aren’t providing healthcare to thousands of human beings...
The lab equipment at Texas Pres was.
There is no sterilization or decon procedure that will let the lawyers allow it back in the hospital to treat thousands more patients.
I guarantee it.
Neither will their liability insurance.
They’ll write the equipment off and send it to scrap.
The lab equipment is not involved in patient care. It is used for diagnosis. Patient samples come to the equipment, nothing (except the diagnosis) goes the other way. Only lab workers ever touch the machines; physicians *might* use the machines if they are doing research, but otherwise probably never see them.
The only material that, as far as I know, cannot be reliably decontaminated is anything contaminated by prions. Ebola is actually pretty easy to kill... simple bleach will do it.
Hospitals reuse stuff all the time, after sterilizing it. I have never seen a hospital get sued for the practice of sterilizing and reusing, for example, surgical tools.
It is in the hospital. Patients are in the hospital.
It won’t be allowed back.
It will be written off and destroyed.
Lawyers will never allow it back in the door.
Bet the farm on that.
I share your bewilderment.
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