Posted on 11/01/2014 9:02:31 AM PDT by Eddie01
Hospital officials say the condition of a New York doctor who became infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea has been upgraded from serious but stable condition to stable condition.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Will stay ‘Stable’ until Tuesday night
Doesn’t matter. The 0bola cat is WAY out of the bag. Folks - across ALL spectrums - are over-th-top outraged, over the purposefully imported 0bola virus.
I thought I heard yesterday that he was moving into the second phase. Glad to see he isn’t.
“who’s paying these exorbitant bills?”
.
The hospitals will have to eat every one of the bills if the patients are uninsured.
And what about the people on Medicare? I doubt that they will be fully covered for ebola.
No hospital will dare to turn down a potential ebola patient, and even if the patient proves to be ebola-free, the quarantine time itself will be extremely costly and may not be fully covered by health insurance.
Insurance companies are going to max out the limit on paying out to their patients, and for how long? They are not in good shape right now, as it is.
Does anyone in government put two and two together, any one of the ‘independent’ ‘thinkers’ come up with the notion tat we cannot be managing this ill-hatched Ebola fiasco in the position we are in in which this monster they call a president took over the failing medical industry, because it was failing?
And premiums are damaging household incomes?
Bellevue had to empty out their ICU and transport the patients - in critical condition - to NYU.
The Dallas foreigner cost the Hospital an unrecoverable $500,000.000, not to mention the other expenses to the community.
Imagine what this Bellevue deal is costing.
Our children will owe that money. The hospital cannot ‘eat’ these costs without repercussions.
NO way.
“Dr. Bowlingball” - hahaha, good one!
Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer enters ‘next phase’ of illness despite treatment with experimental drug Brincidofovir - Saturday, October 25
Plus he’s getting blood transfusions...doesn’t sound like it’s working very well at this point.
“Stable” in this case means “We really don’t want you to know how bad it is.”
Thanks. Interesting.
I think you’re right.
If he’s having intestinal problems....which generally means diarrhea which goes with this disease as it progresses...then they have yet to really move him the other direction. Likely why they say stable....not necessarily worse but not better either.
I’m still wondering how it is possible no one else got sick from Duncan.
It’s been a week since he got the blood transfusion....I’, not real confident he’s going to pull thru this....guess more time will tell. When you look at the time line it’s playing out similar to Duncans progression.....
And he lied prior about how he was feeling.....
TIMELINE: THE RUN-UP TO DR SPENCER’S EBOLA DIAGNOSIS
September 16: Dr Craig Spencer flew to Guinea to treat Ebola patients as a member of the French organization Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers)
October 14: Dr Spencer departed Guinea on a flight to Brussels. He reported no symptoms.
October 17: He boarded a flight to the U.S. on Brussels Airlines Flight SN0501. Reported no symptoms.Arrived at JFK and was screened with no symptoms upon arrival.
October 21: At 7 AM, he reported fatigue and exhaustion. No fever, vomiting, diarrhea.
At around 3:00 PM, Dr Spencer visited The Meatball Shop for 40 minutes. The Meatball Shop is located at 64 Greenwich Avenue.
Around 4:30 PM, he visited the High Line. Walked on High Line and stopped at the Blue Bottle Coffee stand (10th Ave & W 16th St)
At around 5:30 PM, he got off the High Line at 34th Street and took the 1 train to the 145th Street station.
October 22: At around 1:00 PM, Dr Spencer went running along Riverside Drive and Westside Highway.
Around 2:00 PM, he went to pick up Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share at 143rd St and Amsterdam Avenue (Corbin Hill Farm) and picked up a box which he took to his apartment.
At around 5:30 PM, Dr Spencer left for The Gutter bowling alley in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with two friends. For his arrival at Gutter, he took the A train at 145th Street and transferred at 14th Street and took the L train to Bedford Avenue.
Around 8:30 PM, Dr Spencer left The Gutter. For his return trip, he used Uber as his means of transportation.
October 23: Around 10:15AM, he first reported a fever. At this point, he called Medecins Sans Frontieres and the New York City Health Department. He was immediately taken to Bellevue by FDNY EMS.
*****October 24: Dr Spencer is given a transfusion with blood taken from Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol after it is discovered they share a blood type*********
October 28: He is reported to be in a ‘serous but stable’ condition after being treated with more blood plasma
Wow.....thanks for the timeline. Eerie timeline, I should say.
Time will tell.
I’m still furious that he jaunted to and fro, all over the Manhattan area, after just returning from treating.....0bola patients in W Africa.
He knew then he wasn’t up to par.....if you look at the time line he was feeling exhausted etc. which is also an earmarker, especially since he had just come from the area....so if you go from the time he felt exhausted it does explain why he’s in the shape he’s in now.
When you take into account the Maine re-headed ditz it’s very hard to believe any of them will be truthful when it comes to their own situation.....even before leaving Africa I tend to think they’re ‘all’ taking Aspirin in order to get through the temperature screenings.....just so they can get here in case they are coming down with it.
Why the heck they can’t be contained over there before leaving is beyond me...and should be understood before they volunteer.
Not to mention the businesses that are affected by all of this arrogance.
Nobody claimed that even one case was trivial and at the beginning of my post I commented that even one case is too many. Inciting panic serves no purpose and is harmful.
Thomas Eric Duncan who was released with symptoms exposed over 100 people and only 2 health care workers developed disease.
Public health requires vigilance but fear mongering actually hampers good disease control and actually contributed to the a worsening of the outbreak in Guinea.
That’s right...and has been mentioned the medical costs....we all know “somebody” is going to pay for these people. I’m not so sure these people are covered...and the Insurance companies ,I’m certain, are already doing some heavy tweaking to pay the very least they have to. What a mess if this thing even gets to really rolling!
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