Hmmm. The story keeps changing. Figures.
The other thing that we’re not hearing here is that it has become a political football, since there are elections coming up. All of the different party leaders are posturing and charging everybody else at all levels with incompetence or wilful neglect or whatever and demanding their heads (minister of health, regional health departments, etc.). But it’s not going to solve the problem.
Actually, I don’t think politics are particularly relevant in this case, which appears to be the result of human stupidity or perhaps fear: why didn’t she go back to the hospital where she worked, which surely would have known her medical and relevant personal history? I suspect that she may not have mentioned the ebola contact until she realized that she couldn’t deny it any longer.
That’s always the problem with a disease like this; I’m sure many plague carriers reacted the same way. The African patients such as Patrick Sawyer and Duncan reacted the same way, acting almost as if they thought they could outrun it.
Everybody obviously needs to beef up their procedures, and they probably only do it when it’s too late. I think we’ll find the same thing in Dallas, alas, where they are being way too dismissive of the whole thing.
” I suspect that she may not have mentioned the ebola contact until she realized that she couldn’t deny it any longer.”
Which would be why she alerted the ministry of her fever on Sep 30. Because she was hiding her contact.
Which is why she repeatedly requested to be tested for ebola. Because she was hiding it.
BTW, this is exactly what you can expect from ‘nationalized healthcare’. Cost cutting at precisely the wrong junctures. Ebola tests are expensive. And the general opinion was she was safe because she was Western, wasn’t bathing in bodily fluids of the patient, and used appropriate protective gear as determined by the same cost cutting bureaucrats that didn’t immediately pick her up on the 30th when she reported a slight fever.
And, btw, in countries with ‘nationalized healthcare’, you can’t just show up at a hospital outside of your district without a really darned good reason. Carlos III might not even be available for patients without their being referred there. People here have no clue about how healthcare really operates in nationalized healthcare countries. They just assume you can ‘pick the best hospital in your opinion and then show up on the doorstep to get care there’. It doesn’t work that way in NHS type countries.