Posted on 10/18/2014 5:28:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital have been moved from the building, but patients are still steering clear of the once-bustling hospital.
People have called to cancel outpatient procedures, and some have even opted not to go to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in emergency situations, ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA reports.
"It feels like a ghost town," Rachelle Cohorn, a local health care vendor who has been to the hospital recently, told WFAA. "No one is even walking around the hospital."
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Obola promised us a few dozen cases...Thanks Obola!
This has the potential to make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park.
The only way to stop it would be to become raysust and ban flights from Africa.
I’m sure the chances of someone else in that hospital getting ebola are practically non existent.
Maybe they should have a sale.
How many go out next time out on the cruise ship will be interesting.
At this point it’s probably the safest hospital in the Dallas area.
I’ll gladly go that hospital, providing the outbreak is over and Nurse Pham is back at her job.
Christmas shopping season is right around the corner.
Amazon should do **really** well this year.
Christmas shopping season is right around the corner.
I was reading something a few weeks back that made some sense.
The article pointed to our overreliance on antbiotics has caused hospitals to be far less antiseptic than they were 30 years ago.
It makes sense to me. Hospitals these days are full of carpet and other germ environments. They don’t even smell like hospitals anymore.
When the hospital goes bankrupt, will they have standing to sue Pres Obola?
Just wait for flu season to start...
That could turn the average hospital into a disaster zone.
Thousands worried they have Ebola when they only have the flu... And then sprinkle in just a couple that really do have Ebola and the whole thing goes into meltdown...
You worry too much.
We have 11 beds nationwide for the ebola infected patients.
LOL! Good one! ... God help us.
This just shows that there aren’t THAT many sick people to begin with.
Bump!
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