Shelayne
Dallas will be lucky if there are less than eight secondary cases from Thomas Eric Duncan in the first generation of infection.
Texas Presby is running 1 in 26 of the PPE-2 protected HCW not in the high risk group getting Ebola.
You cannot be in the same room with a late Ebola case in PPE-2 without someone getting infected, especially if they have the infected _intubated_ and are running _dialysis_, for Pete’s sake.
And the Medical unions are mobilizing to act!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/us/texas-health-worker-tests-positive
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The C.D.C. has said that for health workers in the United States, gloves, gowns, masks and face shields or goggles would be protection enough. But many health workers across the country, seeing images of people in Africa completely encased in full-body, hazardous-material suits, have requested similar protection.
“A lot of us are starting to get worried,” said Debra Buccellato, an emergency room nurse in Santa Rosa, Calif. “I’m a single mom so if I got sick there’d be a huge void.”
Ms. Buccellato, 38, said supervisors at her hospital had distributed information about C.D.C. guidelines, but added, “I have not seen any active training or practice drills, and I haven’t seen any new or upgraded personal protective equipment.”
She said she had emailed her manager to ask for more training, but said she was not sure that hazardous material suits were the best option for her 90-bed facility, Sutter Santa Rosa Hospital.
“I don’t know how realistic it is to go to that level when you have X amount of patients to take care of and time issues,” Ms. Buccellato said. For now, she said she planned to start wearing a face mask for her entire shift
“I’m angry about this,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director. “We want the first line of defense to be the most prepared. Our hospitals are resisting us. The C.D.C. doesn’t say that we need hazmat suits. If this doesn’t change dramatically, we will picket every hospital in this country if we have to.”
I agree with you.
I was just reading the timeline of the Duncan case, and he was having explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting on the 28th, and then he asked to be put in a diaper because he couldn’t make it to his bedside commode. This was on the 29th, a day before he tested positive for Ebola.
On the 30th, the Ebola test was confirmed, and THEN the staff traded their gowns and scrubs for CDC PPE protocols.
So it would seem that the HCW were likely exposed to all sorts of infectious body fluids before they donned their PPE.
As someone else commented, Those 24 beds they have reserved for Ebola patients that they spoke about in the press conference this morning, surely sound about right... Dear Lord, I pray not.
The four people who shared Mr. Duncan's apartment unit when he was highly contagious have not yet come down with Ebola. Their last contact with him was on September 28. It is now 2200 Dallas time on October 12, 15 days later, and there is still no report that any of those four have even developed temperatures above 98.6 F.
I repeat that LUCK has a lot to do with contracting Ebola.
"Dallas will be lucky if there are less than eight secondary cases from Thomas Eric Duncan in the first generation of infection.Texas Presby is running 1 in 26 of the PPE-2 protected HCW not in the high risk group getting Ebola.
You cannot be in the same room with a late Ebola case in PPE-2 without someone getting infected, especially if they have the infected _intubated_ and are running _dialysis_, for Pete’s sake."