Posted on 10/26/2014 8:28:48 PM PDT by RightGeek
You may think you know the details of what happened in Dallas. But 60 Minutes asks you to think again.
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with four of the nurses who treated Thomas Duncan, the initial Ebola patient.
Here’s what we learned.
1. Whether intentionally or not, Duncan misled authorities about his exposure to Ebola.
When Duncan first presented to the hospital on September 25, he didn’t specify that he’d come from Liberia or even West Africa — the center of the Ebola outbreak.
Duncan only said he’d returned from “Africa,” which could’ve meant one of dozens of nations, most of them far from the Ebola outbreak. Perhaps the nurses could’ve pressed him further. But with Duncan’s symptoms not that severe yet, and with no real reason to think he had Ebola, they sent him home.
After Duncan was re-admitted to the hospital three days later, significantly sicker, the hospital suspected Ebola might be the cause. But even then, Duncan wasn’t wholly honest. He said he hadn’t been exposed to anyone who was sick from Ebola, even though later reports revealed that Duncan had bravely helped carry an Ebola-infected woman to a local hospital in Liberia.
Duncan also told a nurse that he’d buried his daughter who died in childbirth — but he said that she hadn’t died from Ebola. Duncan later denied the story to federal officials.
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(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Duncan’s vomit and diarrhea also presented logistical challenges; it was all hazardous waste, because anything with Duncan’s bodily fluids could infect someone else. And he was producing an unbelievable amount of it.
“I’ve been in health care for nearly 20 years,” ICU nurse John Mulligan told 60 Minutes, “and I’ve never emptied as much trash as just from the waste of his constant diarrhea.”
Obamaite and CDC incompetence.
And these are the folks who want to be in charge of your health care.
When you get infected with Ebola, your body knows it has been poisoned and it does anything it can to get rid of the poison - hence the unrelenting vomiting and diarrhea.
So, the woman he took to the hospital was his daughter? That part is very confusing.
just one correction.....nurses do not “send people home”...its strictly by drs order that the patient doesn’t need to be admitted.....
Total blowout at both ends. Salmonella poisoning does the same, but I suspect this is worse.
That isn’t the worst part.
The worst part is you drown in your own bodily fluids.
If you’re lucky enough to survive, you’re weak and debilitated for life.
Its a nasty bug that makes food poisoning look tame.
Gross!! TMI!
Democrats respect liars and incompetents..
I’m completely shocked that 60 Minutes would report anything potentially damaging to the administration.
As far as what they reported, she was the pregnant daughter of his landlord according to what I’ve seen. The disease seems to almost target pregnant women for some reason. Maybe the child in the womb was his? Maybe the woman actually was his illegitimate daughter. Or, maybe he was lying again. He had no evident reason to want to obscure any of these facts that I can tell, which says to me that he was just in the habit of doing so.
So the CDC let the hospital take the heat for all this time?
Them nurses could have problems next year from the IRS, ICE, NSA, FBI, or some other alphabet agency.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
“Duncan also told a nurse that he’d buried his daughter who died in childbirth — but he said that she hadn’t died from Ebola. Duncan later denied the story to federal officials.”
Hmm...
That he wasn’t clear on being exposed to Ebola, being in West Africa or handling a person dying from Ebola May keep this hospital from losing a ton of money.
They tried to help when no one in the USA knew anything about it. They deserve thanks.
Something in the article has made me wonder, does sweating underneath the biohazard suit somehow create a vector or otherwise aid in infection? I’d think that the salt present in sweat would help prevent infection but it seems as if there’s something about the suits themselves since all or practically all westerners infected have been wearing them. Heat and humidity beneath the impervious fabric might be it.
But it begins with Duncan misleading, aka lying, to the hospital staff about his travel and exposure to Ebola.
Especially since Scott Pelley, in spite of being a native Texan, is even further to the left than Dan Rather and Egbert (his real name) R. Murrow. Sad that See BS talking heads like Pelley, Rather and Schieffer all were blessed with being born and raised here yet they repudiate the Conservative values that define Texas.
I read the article. I don’t recall SEE-BS implicating Resident Obola or even CDC. In fact, I don’t recall either one even being mentioned.
Yes but what of deal did the Obola regime promise Duncan and his family if he successfully got Ebola into the US?
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