Posted on 10/23/2014 2:26:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Most Americans have some confidence that the U.S. health care system will prevent Ebola from spreading in this country, but they’re not so sure their local hospital can safely handle a patient, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Amid worry here, most Americans say the U.S. also should be doing more to stop Ebola in West Africa. Health authorities have been clear: Until that epidemic ends, travelers could unknowingly carry the virus anywhere.
“It seems to me we have a crisis of two things. We have a crisis of science, and either people don’t understand it or … they don’t believe it,” said Dr. Joseph McCormick, an Ebola expert at the University of Texas School of Public Health. And, “we have a crisis in confidence in government.” …
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Don’t worry. The Obola Czar will suppress all news reports. That should improve the poll numbers.
Ah, that’s what the professor means.
Go pick out a southern small community hospital and announce Ebola has arrived. Half the nurses will vacate the building within an hour. Folks with relatives in the hospital will come and pick them up and tote them off. New patients scheduled for operations? They will refuse the operation unless another hospital is chosen. Even the kitchen staffs will be questionable.
You mean like the US Census Bureau has been faking economic data out in California?
I think a prospective patient would have to have a death wish to want to get whatever done at an Ebola Hospital.
I guess it is all the fear-mongering going on by those rabid republicans.
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