Posted on 10/12/2014 10:42:34 AM PDT by Enlightened1
He says the diagnosis of the worker - who's not identified - clearly shows that there was a breach of protocol.
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No. It’s like a lot of things, the protocols have to be followed every time. This is why the hospital’s like Emory or the one in Nebraska are better suited for this. In normal hospitals they do not work under the conditions of quarantine this much.
You cannot make a mistake when handling this stuff.
“You cannot make a mistake when handling this stuff.”
Precisely the issue. And it has nothing to do with ‘airborne’ or ‘particulate’ or ‘droplet’.
Humans make mistakes.
When it becomes clear that a mistake is suicide for the nursing staff and other medicos, they’ll simply stop showing up for work.
It’s the reason the MSF garb/decon procedures are so extensive. You can’t get people to work in those wards unless they’re certain that they are somewhat more insulated from the consequences of simply being human.
Obviously that Protocol was breached just a tinsy bit in the case of this unfortunate Nurse.
Of course, the CDC has absolutely no idea how that Protocol was breached or why it was breached.
Nor do they have any clue as to whether their Protocol itself is inadequate, flawed or ineffective to prevent the spread of the virus.
Right now all they know is that followed the best available practices and those best available practices were not successful in preventing the spread of the disease.
From the gitgo, the CDC response was arrogant, unserious and driven by political agenda considerations as opposed to sound, medical science, Public Health and Safety and Infectious Disease and Epidemic control considerations.
If Ebola gets into the prison system there are going to be an awful lot of now occupied cells freed up and a lot of FEMA coffins removed from the inventory
^^This.^^
“A top federal health official says a health worker diagnosed with Ebola has been unable to identify a breach in procedures that might have led to her infection.”
Arrogance.
Impossible. That would require a 21 day quarantine for each person.
Taking the temperature multiple times will do squat against something with a 21 day incubation period.
...”How come a patient’s right to privacy trumps our right to know if we have been exposed to a deadly disease?”...
Political correctness.
Blaming the nurse is wrong. Consider that this nurse, despite all her and her colleagues best efforts, still caught Ebola (same with the nurse in Spain). Where does that leave the rest us, without knowing who might be infected, without protective gear? Obama owns this by his inaction. Ebola = Obola.
If Obama had half a brain and any balls he’d close the border and organize an international quarantine of Africa! Obama risks all of us by not acting.
Oh, well, in that case everything’s fine!
Just don’t make even a tiny mistake and you won’t die a horrible death or create pandemic of epic proportions.
Guess that’s settled! It’s all her fault!
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The science is settled. The protocols are perfect, so they must have been breached. There is no need to review the protocols just because a few hundred health care workers have contracted the disease.
The CDC is saying only what they’re allowed to say. Not enough Americans are taking this seriously.
Circular reasoning and begging the question.
SINCE she got infected (proved), and SINCE standard+droplet+contact is sufficient to protect workers (unproven), THEN she must have deviated from standard+droplet+contact.
Why the reliance on the unproven antecedent?
The “Andromeda Strain” keeps popping into mind, except the CDC probably doesn’t employ a tactical nuclear weapon as a last fail-safe to ensure containment.
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