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Posted on 10/12/2014 2:43:21 AM PDT by radu
A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, the hospital said in a statement.
Confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Did this person have contact with Duncan?
If this “health care worker” had no contact with Duncan, then how did he/she contract the virus?
Yikes, I was really hoping we had dodged a bullet with Duncan.
Duncan showed symptoms 9 days after he was thought to be exposed.
This healthcare worker could have been exposed anytime from the 24th when Duncan first presented to the hospital to October 8th when he died. Today’s the 12th. So anywhere from 4 to 19 days. Probably the latter. As greater precautions would have been taken after the 19th.
Not much info at this point but it comes across like it was someone who had contact with him.
I imagine we’ll hear more info later in the day.
Even if the health care worker did have contact, then what about “you’re safe sitting next to them on the bus.”? That’s the swill being put out by our president and our CDC.
Why should I trust these people?
Answer — you can’t ever. And you especially can’t in an election season.
Obama’s Open Borders Policies Have Spread Terrible Disease. America wake up.
She’s from the same hospital that Duncan went to. It’s logical to assume she was exposed to him in some way.
The question is how many people has she exposed. When did her symptoms start? And more importantly when did she become contagious?
I’ve been hoping we’d dodged the bullet, too, but have expected this news to crop up.
They’re talking about it now and said the worker did treat Duncan and came down with a fever Friday.
The question is is this from the first ER visit where no one suspected Ebola? Or the hospitalization where precautions were being taken? Obviously the latter would be more unsettling than the former, but either way I’m afraid we will see nurses, cnas, janitors, etc staying home in big numbers in the future.
With all the missteps that went on in Dallas, I figured there would be other cases. I’m waiting for the county judge to test positive.
PING!
You can sit and do the math on man-hours. For each single person that comes up with Ebola...you can figure at least 3,000 man-hours tied up into this guy, tracking his friends and family down, testing them, and trying to prevent further issues. You can figure by March of next year...at least 10,000 people in Texas who have contracted the disease, and the whole system overcome with man-hours that they can’t sustain. Just figure one single McDonalds that a guy might visit and having the entire crew put on quarantine. Or a Wal-Mart visit....where the 300 employees are now quarantined.
Didn’t they have to take the ambulance used to transport Duncan out of commission for decontamination with everyone in that ambulance under observation?
How can you be certain that effective precautions were taken the second time in light of that?
I've said several times that while I wouldn't wish this disease on my worst enemy, that ridiculous, arrogant showboat deserves it if anyone does, especially bragging about wearing the same clothes to a press conference.
He’s probably had sex with his wife by now. She certainly doesn’t deserve it.
I can;t but at least they were aware of the possibility and should have been taking some precautions. I suspect this is not the only worker that will test positive.
And notice how we did not hear about this one and the pending test before it came back? Cards are starting to be held closer to the chest.
Now we have to be worried if the person is black or white and dies or survives...
They didn’t say when this worker treated him. I guess CNN just found out about it and are still trying to get more info.
Yeah, it would definitely be more unsettling if she treated him after he’d been admitted and they were using precautions. Maybe they’ll have a little more info on that later on. They’re talking about it now and still haven’t mentioned when she treated him.
What's interesting is that nobody from the apartment where Duncan was staying has so far fallen ill.
Yet a health care worker at Texas Ebola Presbyterian may have ...
Come to think of hit, Duncan himself was a somewhat inadvertent health care worker, having helped to move a desperately ill woman hours before her death.
Does this say anything about how the disease propagates?
Other than a photo op with Jessi Jackson just prior to Duncan’s death and the statement issued afterwards, what have you heard about anyone else who was in that apartment since they were hauled off to a vacant house in a gated community?
This could be a busy week in Dallas now that enough time has lapsed. Probably going to hear about several more cases - Duncan’s family members and other hospital workers, and who knows who else.
I wonder if that stupid county judge is going to start losing sleep now.
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