Posted on 10/12/2014 5:54:04 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
From Press conference live right now:
The 2nd person who contracted ebola was wearing the full protective gear as recommended by the CDC!
Wow!
I don’t remember exact words but yeah something along the line of..”there will be no more questions, I need to get him to a meeting.”
Can’t help but wonder how many health care workers will quit or stay home if (when) this starts to spread. The first few patients will get the best of care. But, at some point, panic will set in, the System will implode, and then lots of people will get no care. Then watch out.
You mean the Judge who wanted 2,000 illegal kids to come to Dallas this summer? The Judge who personally met with the Duncan family, in the infected apartment, and rode with to their new, super-secret gated home? THAT Judge looked scared?
If I was directing this movie, I would have the pre_sent hold a press conference to reassure the people that everything is ok.
An external shot would show Bo in full protective gear fleeing for his life...
BINGO! That’s what I was thinking.
He should have just sat next to the patient on a bus and then he wouldn’t have contracted it.
Good. I've been scared since August.
There is likely a very simple explanation, which has to do with a mistake in decontamination.
The best way to explain it is by thinking about rubber gloves. You put on the gloves and they get some invisible contamination on both of them. Now how do you take the gloves off without getting contaminant on your skin?
People typically think you use one hand to grab the wrist of the other glove and peel it off. And that is wrong, because you might contaminate the skin of the other wrist with the peeling hand glove.
The correct answer is that you must thoroughly decontaminate your gloves before removing them.
There are similar problems with protective masks, eye wear, shoes, hair, and protective over-garments. Some contamination situations are so serious, and hair is so absorbent, that everyone has to shave all the hair off their bodies. (Usually radiological or spore bacterial contamination.)
*And* any and all surfaces, ceiling, floors, walls, equipment, especially heavily contaminated things like door handles, telephones, etc.
While decontaminating all of this sounds complicated, it is, and it is very time consuming. This is why medical care workers are at risk, because they are “too busy” to decontaminate, and the vast majority of contamination is so unimportant that they do not regularly decontaminate.
Because of drug resistant bacteria, hospitals have tried to track down sources of contamination, and discovered that doctor’s neckties and long sleeves were *very* contaminated, to the point where doctors are being told to stop wearing them.
The bottom line is what I call Universal Rule Number Two, ‘the doctor’s rule’, that is simply:
“Stool Gets Everywhere!”
Can one person execute a “don-doff” routine flawlessly? Sure.
Can 100 people under extreme stress do it flawlessly 100 times? Not a chance.
“They likely have it by now and are being hidden from the public to prevent panic. Remember they were being quarantined in a private home at an “undisclosed” location. I am doubtful we will ever hear from them again”
Yes I’ve wondered about that also. Not a peep about them.
I just want someone to say, look when it comes to Ebola, we don’t know jack, so we had better stop flights from the infected countries NOW!
I’m reasonably sure that the doctor, even the CDC, knows this is bad, but everyone is afraid of the thugs in the White House, so they just regurgitate the approved talking points.
These guys are scared of the White House more than Ebola.
Only time will tell how much havoc has been wreaked on the American public because of this one African man/lax immigration policies.
Ping.
(2nd person in Dallas contracts Ebola...HCW in full protective gear.)
First UK volunteer gets experimental GSK Ebola shot in trial (100% Successful in primate trial)
Yeah. .me too. I figure my worries are cause I work in a large hospital. But mostly I’m afraid because it’s impossible to believe my government.
I am very curious why Duncan ‘s family hasn’t tested positive. It could be they will but it’s odd given their proximity. Or they have and somehow it’s being kept quiet - though that’s highly unlikely.
That is not going to happen.
A 30-day quarantine would be just as good, and that MIGHT happen.
This sounds like racism to me. Where's Jesse Jackson?
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