Posted on 10/13/2014 5:53:44 AM PDT by Innovative
Some healthcare experts have criticized the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for saying that a "protocol breach" was responsible for the infection of a Dallas nurse with the Ebola virus, claming that the description scapegoats the nurse in a case that shows how unprepared nursing staffs are for dealing with a potential outbreak.
Texas and CDC officials say that the nurse was wearing the recommended personal protective gear for handling an Ebola patient, including a gown, gloves, mask, and eye shield. However, one expert told Reuters that gear only offers a minimum amount of protection, especially when the disease enters its final phases.
Sean Kaufman, president of an Atlanta-based firm that helps train hospital staff said that caregivers may need to add more layers of protection in the patient's final days, such as double gloves, a respirator, or even a full bodysuit.
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Baghdad Bob Frieden is a liar.
The CDC is either dishonest, or else they don’t understand their business very well. Perhaps they have become too political and less medical.
This is almost identical to HIV/AIDS. We were given false information in the beginning of that too.
Apparently, the CDC and other medical “experts” don’t know squat about Ebola, but rather than admit to their own ignorance of the disease, it’s much easier to just blame the nurse.
When humanity finally does succeed in wiping itself off the planet, it will be attributed to a “clerical error” or “technical glitch” where no one can be blamed.
Perhaps she contracted the virus on the patient’s first visit to the hospital when it was not known that he had the virus? Could that have been the case? Is that possible?
Frieden is an idiot to start casting blame at this stage in the game. He’s nothing more than a political puppet on behalf of the administration. Has he accomplished anything at all as head of the CDC? If he has, I haven’t seen it.
I would suggest that the gov't drones are trying to cover their butts. The protocols likely weren't breached, the protocols are most likely inadequate.
Can’t wait to hear Dr. Know-It-All’s explanation of why this fully “protected” nurse contracted ebola when the girlfriend and her family were quarantined inside the apartment loaded with Duncan’s bodily fluids for five days and have no symptoms.
At the presser yesterday, it was reported that the nurse had no contact with Duncan until after he was admitted to the hospital with ebola. She did not contact him at his first visit when no one knew he had it.
ROFL
I get what he's saying. We know there was a security breach, we just don't know what it is. Anyone who believes anything the CDC says anymore has issues.
If a “full body suit” is the ultimate, why not provide the workers with a full body suit for the whole thing?
The Bozo’s theory is that since he and his agency are perfect, it has to be the fault of the victim. He doesn’t know what happened, but he knows enough to say. “It ain’t be my fault’.
I think it would be a good photo opp for Obama to be seen in the trenches taking care of those Obola patients.
"Gown, gloves, mask, and eye shield" is Level 2.
Our government is lying to us, also. According to Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, Ebola virus disease: ‘...secondary infection is by direct contact with infectious blood or other body secretions or by airborne particles.’
‘Airborne particles’ are the key words in this definition. Folks need to start paying attention.
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