[exDemMom]

All of the experts from the CDC who have given us information over the airways have all said that Ebola can't do this or that only to backtrack at some point, meanwhile two nurses get infected while taking care of a man who dies of it. None of them know how they got infected. If I were the nursing director, my nurses would act as if it could be airborne.

The nurses were not using PPE correctly, a situation that was fixed only when the CDC showed up.

If you were nursing director, and instructing your nurses to use airborne, rather than droplet, precautions, your nurses would NOT be protected against Ebola. The precautions actually have to be tailored to the mode of transmission. The droplet/contact precautions for Ebola are far more stringent than airborne precautions.

[Mom MD]

THey were following the CDC guidelines as they existed at the time. The CDC was woefully behind and WRONG regarding precautions to be taken. And they change their recommendations almost daily.

[blueplum]

wait a minute now. only fixed when the CDC showed up? but the nurses/Hospital say differently (and wasn’t it D w/o B that pushed the CDC to upgrade their standard?):

“This lack of sufficient protection has been widely reported, and blamed on the hospital. But the nurses say they looked up protocols from the CDC, and as of late September, that’s what the CDC recommended.

Scott Pelley: So the CDC protocols that you would’ve looked up the day he came into the emergency department was in your estimation deficient?

All four nurses: Yes.

Within 48 hours, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital moved to equip its staff with suits that didn’t expose any skin — three weeks before the CDC made that policy their new national standard.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/10/26/60-minutes-just-broke-new-details-on-the-dallas-ebola-case-heres-what-they-revealed/

linked from: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219909/posts