'We're Screwed' Major Garrett open mic briefing U S response to Ebola Outbreak Oct 3 2014

Youtube ^ | 10/07/14

[CynicalBear]

Not that I know of. I just figured she was using one of the normal hand sanitizers people use. The 4% clorox is what hospitals use. That would be stronger than the every day cleansers people use. Plus the everyday stuff people use only kills germs not viruses.

[RegulatorCountry]

I read the product description for the kit and did not see anything about killing a virus, just bacteria. Does it make sense to use it for an ebola outbreak? If it does, then I’m thinking that this is what she was talking about.

[CynicalBear]

Clorox kills virus yes. That’s what they are using to clean up after Ebola contamination.

[ExNewsExSpook]

One thing I’ve always found interesting about Osgood: the late Paul Harvey was excoriated by journalism purists for doing commercials on his radio broadcasts. A “journalist,” they argued, should never be a huckster for his sponsors.

Listen to one of Osgood’s radio segments. He endorses dozens of products every year, and collects healthy fees for reading those commercials. And the same guy touting products during the week is anchoring one of CBS’s flagship broadcasts every Sunday morning. And no one bats an eye.

[PghBaldy]

Maybe 4% is related to the purity of her heroin?

[PghBaldy]

Huh. I remember seeing videos of Mike Wallace doing cigarette commercials.

[SvenMagnussen]

Formaldehyde

Overview. Formaldehyde is used as a disinfectant and sterilant in both its liquid and gaseous states. Formaldehyde is sold and used principally as a water-based solution called formalin, which is 37% formaldehyde by weight. The aqueous solution is a bactericide, tuberculocide, fungicide, virucide and sporicide 72. OSHA indicated that formaldehyde should be handled in the workplace as a potential carcinogen and set an employee exposure standard for formaldehyde that limits an 8-hour time-weighted average exposure concentration of 0.75 ppm. Ingestion of formaldehyde can be fatal, and long-term exposure to low levels in the air or on the skin can cause asthma-like respiratory problems and skin irritation, such as dermatitis and itching.

Mode of Action. Formaldehyde inactivates microorganisms by alkylating the amino and sulfhydral groups of proteins and ring nitrogen atoms of purine bases.

Microbicidal Activity. Varying concentrations of aqueous formaldehyde solutions destroy a wide range of microorganisms. Inactivation of poliovirus in 10 minutes required an 8% concentration of formalin, but all other viruses tested were inactivated with 2% formalin. Four percent formaldehyde is a tuberculocidal agent, inactivating tuberculosis in 2 minutes. The sporicidal action of formaldehyde was slower than that of glutaraldehyde in comparative tests with 4% aqueous formaldehyde and 2% glutaraldehyde against the spores of B. anthracis.

Uses. Although formaldehyde-alcohol is a chemical sterilant and formaldehyde is a high-level disinfectant, the health-care uses of formaldehyde are limited by its irritating fumes and its pungent odor even at very low levels (<1 ppm). It is suspected human carcinogen linked to nasal cancer and lung cancer.

Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008

http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/guidelines/Disinfection_Nov_2008.pdf

[ExNewsExSpook]

That was before Wallace officially became a “newsman.” Back in the 50s, he was (among other things), a game show emcee, an actor who briefly appeared on Broadway, and the host of a talk program with then-wife Buff Cobb. Mike had no problem plugging sponsor’s products during those early TV appearances.

He joined CBS in 1964, after one of his sons was killed while hiking in Greece. As one of the conditions for joining the network, he bought out his contract with Parliament cigarettes, to avoid any conflict of interest. As you might expect, there was howls of protest from the journalism purists at CBS, and Wallace got mostly second-tier assignments until Don Hewitt decided to put him on a new program called “60 Minutes.”

Wallace got the last laugh. Walter Cronkite was forced out at 65 to make room for Dan Rather, but CBS decided to rescind its retirement policy for Wallace. The reason? 60 Minutes made much more money for the network than the “Evening News.”