Posted on 10/17/2014 1:52:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One day after visiting the Cleveland and Akron areas last weekend, a Dallas nurse was diagnosed with Ebola virus and may have been contagious while on her return flight home. There are now 16 people in both Cuyahoga County and Summit County that are being monitored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and one person that is being officially quarantined. Now that the deadly virus has arrived in the U.S. and has had an encounter in Cleveland, local officials are stepping up their efforts to make sure that our area hospitals, health organizations and safety forces can handle the possible threat of Ebola. According to local hospital sources, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is designating a central hospital for all Ebola cases in Cuyahoga County to go to, and will decide between either MetroHealth Medical Center or the Cleveland Clinic.
Officials have talked about setting up one designated hospital in each U.S. state to handle any Ebola cases that arise in that state, but so far this has just been talk and no efforts have been made to make any such arrangements. Cuyahoga County is taking matters into its own hands and is looking to centralize Ebola-related care in Cleveland, at either MetroHealth Medical Center or the Cleveland Clinic. The final decision has not yet been revealed.
There are just four of the highest level (level 4) biocontainment patient care units in the U.S. that are designed to deal with the likes of Ebola. Unfortunately, none of these level four biocontainment units are located in Ohio, and include: the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.; the medical center at the University of Nebraska; the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta; and St. Patrick Hospital near the Rocky Mountain Labs in Missoula, Mont....
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this is a good idea.
Why allow it to shut down every hospital for weeks even if they have 1 patient.
That’s because the people in charge know nothing. They’re idiots.
That and lied to. But designated hospitals are a smart move. Otherwise patients will be fleeing every hospital that has a case.
Someone gets a fever and goes to the neighborhood clinic. And it spreads more when they’re transferred to the big city hospital. And it spreads further when they decide to test for Ebola so are sent to the special designated hosptial. When the test comes back positive, will they be left at the NOT Level 4 hospital or will there be a ded still open at one of the REAL Level 4 units?
Dallas is scrambling to get two of it’s hospitals (not THPH) ready to take in adults and a third for children. NYC was doing much the same. Smells like lots of cities are doing this. Whether they’re doing to out of preparedness or for knowing it’s about to hit the fan is anyone’s guess.
Ohio Ping
There are just four of the highest level (level 4) biocontainment patient care units in the U.S. that are designed to deal with the likes of Ebola.
Unfortunately, none of these level four biocontainment units are located in Ohio, and include: the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.; the medical center at the University of Nebraska; the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta; and St. Patrick Hospital near the Rocky Mountain Labs in Missoula, Mont. Nebraska has 10 of these beds available, while the other three hospitals have three beds available each.
Metro is on the west (generally white) side of town. Cleveland Clinic is on the East (Black) side of town.
If they put it at the Cleveland Clinic, they are Racist because they are putting the Ebola on the Black side of town. If they put it at Metro, they are Racist because they are keeping it away from the Black folks.
So either way Jessie Jackass and Al Sharpie have a good talking point.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Metro is the only level 1 trauma unit for the area, doubt they will give that up to have their hospital trashed and quarantined
Best practice would be to do like Baylor did today - try to keep them out of the normal ER flow.
Good luck with that, you already have people flowing into the ER with a cough thinking they have Ebola. It makes sense to keep it at one hospital but people here are being stupid and starting to panic thanks to non-stop updates.
For those not familiar with biolevel 4: http://www.cdc.gov/training/quicklearns/biosafety/
The Cleveland Clinic?
Whoa boy.
My sentiments exactly.
Cleveland Clinic is one of the Nations best Medical Facilities this country has...located on the East Side, but that should not make the Hospital to be called the Black people Hospital...People come from all over the World to the Cleveland Clinic.
There is also University Hospital well know facility, and the East side is neighbor to many areas like Shaker Hts, and lets not forget the Colleges, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Orchestra, the good food and smells in 'Little Italy' ...
and in the 50’s how I loved to go to ‘downtown Cleveland’ and yes it was safe, I was 11 years and rode the bus to my music lessons every Saturday ALONE...and the West Side Market, wow what a great place to shop...
ahhh Precious Memories, how they linger, how they ever flood my Soul...
sorry for rattling on, but Hey it's Friday night and now I'm an old lady living in the Laurel Mts. of Pennsylvania...and bored a bit...
ok Niters All..
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