Posted on 10/19/2014 6:49:36 PM PDT by Dallas59
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Testing my understanding....Are you saying that Duncan was not afflicted until he was diagnosed?
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None of the family were in prolonged close contact with the index case.
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They (supposedly) lived in close quarters (apartment) for close to a week. I’d say that’s close and prolonged.
Also, I remember reading reports stating he’d slept in all of the beds. I imagine he would’ve used all (both, at most) bathrooms, too. Where did the others sleep, and use the bathroom?
Again....prolonged and close contact.
the very same reason why if someone at your workplace has the flu, not everyone in the office gets the flu.
If someone at our workplace has the flu....at least one, or usually more, also get the flu. Every year :(
Just the odds. Amazing that not one family member came in contact with the infected furnishings, surfaces, etc. Lucky for them.
that’s if we can even find the ebola czar, who missed another meeting.
Ebola is generally considered to be contagious once symptoms appear. As the disease progresses, it becomes more contagious. Duncan was infected and contagious at the time he was admitted to the hospital. Samples were taken for testing, but test results were not received until two days later. According to the timelines, the nurses were not using proper PPE until he was officially diagnosed.
They (supposedly) lived in close quarters (apartment) for close to a week. I’d say that’s close and prolonged.
Also, I remember reading reports stating he’d slept in all of the beds. I imagine he would’ve used all (both, at most) bathrooms, too. Where did the others sleep, and use the bathroom?
Again....prolonged and close contact.
Prolonged close contact is spending time within 3 feet of the patient. Typically, this happens when a family member begins caring for the patient--washing, feeding, etc. He might have slept in the beds, but unless he was vomiting or having diarrhea in the beds, he is unlikely to have left any infectious bodily fluids in them. The toilets--it is possible that family members were avoiding using the same toilet. Or that they were bleaching everything.
In Africa, it is common for children who live in the same house as people who get and die from Ebola to not catch the disease themselves, because they do not have close contact with the patients.
The family was still there
Yes, but it was known that they were not symptomatic and thus could not transmit a disease that they did not have.
It’s actually 42 days.
Supposedly, but would you have taken that risk?
Let’s not forget that Nina Pham and Amber Vinson also thought they were safe.
Their PPE was inadequate! Uncle Tom Friedan blamed (and is still covertly blaming ) it on that stupid breech of protocol. It was the LACK of adequate PPE!!!
The meme from my fellow RN’S should be a resounding: WE WANT WHAT YOU HAVE,TOM!
Why is it necessary to append her picture to this post?
How does it contribute in any way to your point?
They didn’t detect any problem with Tom “Ground Zero” Duncan either at his first doctor’s appointment.
So he went about schmoozing Americans until he got sick as a parrot, and now he’s as dead as disco.
Which means if we have a travel ban, we can avoid a lot of unnecessary expense and headaches.
Senator Ted Cruz is a true Texan and genuine Patriot.
No, I’m simply wondering why it was necessary to post her picture with your comment.
Ah, okay. I may have been misreading a note of contention in your response. If you'll search my posting history, I frequently use graphics to supplement the textual content of what I write. The well-designed posting tool of Free Republic makes it so easy to add the IMG tag that it's almost second nature for me to do so.
To some extent, I can understand what I think may be your point. We've become such a visually-oriented society that well-written words alone don't capture a reader's attention and the addition of a graphic (be a chart, a person's likeness or a cartoon) is added as an enhancement.
she has declared herself obola free
how about a blood test?
There is no way she wrote that statement. How do we know they are even alive?
What are they called? Crisis Actors? Why not?
“Supposedly, but would you have taken that risk?”
“Let’s not forget that Nina Pham and Amber Vinson also thought they were safe.”
I am not a medical professional, however, long before Duncan and Ebola came to the US, I knew that those who are in direct contact treating Ebola patients must have the entire bodies protected and have a process of removing the protective gear in a manner in which material that was contaminated does not touch any human skin.
The hospital in Dallas should have known that as well and protected their staff. The nurses were just doing their jobs, and refusal to do their jobs would have been grounds for termination.
As an elected official, Jenkins was simply doing his job by demonstrating to the public that there was no need for panic or hysteria as he could safely interact with people that may have been exposed to Ebola and even enter an environment where an Ebola patient once lived.
It is not uncommon for political leaders to take such actions. Two events that come to mind are Jimmy Carter going into the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant after the accident. It may have been the only thing he did in office that was not counterproductive, but his message was that TMI was safe and there was no need to panic.
George W. Bush going to the WTC just days after the attack. He had several messages, the obvious message was to the terrorists and the slightly more subtle message was to Americans and was that NYC was safe.
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