Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
An American doctor stricken by Ebola in West Africa arrived home for treatment in Atlanta on Saturday, and U.S. government officials are urging the public to remain confident in the health-care system’s ability to keep the deadly disease isolated.
A charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, said two Americans in serious condition with the disease were being evacuated: Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who had been treating Ebola victims in Liberia, and Nancy Writebol, a missionary from Charlotte.
Brantly and Writebol have been hospitalized in serious condition in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Brantly was brought back to the United States first, in a specially equipped “air ambulance” aircraft that landed Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in the northwest Atlanta suburbs, according to news reports.
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‘there was an on the spot experiment that injected the blood of survivors into the suffering victims and several made a full recovery’
I didn’t know about that experiment; thanks for the info. Prayers the dr. is one of those who makes a similarly complete recovery.
Observation which could have been done in a field hospital in Africa.
He’s contagious for SEVEN WEEKS after his symptoms disappear.
That’s a really long time for the CDC to drop the ball...
IOW, the suits will tear. One would think the rubber boots would be worn on the outside to protect the suit. Not much good when the suit is torn and whatever (not just ebola) is allowed to escape through the air or drippage. Sure, let’s not put him on a stretcher or wheelchair just in case he falls and puts a hole in the knee or elbow of the suit. Why have any patient walk across gravel or any significant distance as what that apprears? That’s just crazy and irresponsible. That, imo, is the first public viewed oopsie, aside from bringing them onto US soil, so no telling how many we haven’t seen.
He is a Christian.
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You’re more than welcome! I bet this is something that should be looked into. I hope so anyway. I hope he’s able to recover and the fact that he was being walked in is amazing, a very positive sign. If they are indeed still alive, this is in fact a good sign. If that serum works, a Nobel Prize to the creators and blessings to the duo. Until we hear about a death, or both their deaths, where there’s life there’s hope.
A Christian wouldn’t take this chance.
Would you take this chance, knowing the downside of just ONE breach of protocol that releases ONE viron could start devastating infection chain in an urban environment?
Would you?
Thanks for your upbeat reply. I too hope and pray for a full recovery. Otoh, I don’t know why they were walking. The energy a critically ill person expends on physical activity is energy their body doesn’t have to fight the infection. Why not put them in wheelchairs? Maybe the optics wouldn’t be as good, but medically it seems like a no-brainer.
Yes, I have my doubts as to how “safe” they were in Africa.
The sick are all in open rooms in hospitals.
So different than what we have for serious diseases.
Just wondering, would a Christian be ranting all over someone like you have been?
Thing is, we’ll find out why later. He might in fact have wanted to walk, or they wanted him to walk for the sake of one reason or another. I do believe he will either recover, which means his story will be plastered all over the news for months, or he’ll die and at least be cremated and buried here where his home is.
I don’t think he’ll become Patient Zero; I believe that if he’s still walking, able to walk, this means that he’s a lot better off than we might realize. The point of the Hazmat suit is to prevent any blood or fluids from spilling out into the open. If he starts ‘leaking’ then it’s kept inside the suit and then nothing will leak.
Although I would like it if he had not been walking on concrete that can tear through the suit.
Thankfully he’s going to be in quarantine; I do wish he were in the CDC Hammer facility.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/02/us-usa-healthcare-cdc-idUKKBN0G201A20140802
It only takes ONE breach of protocol for this to get out.
Just one.
They’ve got at least 7 weeks to drop the ball.
Me? I don’t know. But hubby would. He has taken a lot of chances in life, and this would be no different. And sometimes what looks to outsiders as a choice an individual is making is not really the individual’s choice at all.
If one or both of them survive, that opens to door to bringing more and more over here. With more, the chances of an accident happening grows quickly.
Silence is complicity.
If he’s not involved in this decision his family should speak up.
They will be the ones who get the blame if this gets out of Emory.
And the recipient of massive next of kin lawsuits.
Your hubby taking chances that affect HIM is one thing.
Taking chances that affect millions of innocent people is quite another.
Which would be the point of this whole exercise.
Because we have such ‘superior’ healthcare and obviously don’t deserve it we will ‘share’ it with anyone regardless of expense or contagion.
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