Ebola evacuations to US greater than previously known

Yahoo News ^ | 9/9/14 | Jason Sickles

[Kartographer]

An undisclosed number of people who’ve been exposed to the Ebola virus — not just the four patients publicly identified with diagnosed cases — have been evacuated to the U.S. by an air ambulance company contracted by the State Department.

“We moved a lot of other people who had an exposure event,” said Dent Thompson, vice president of Phoenix Air Group. “Many times these people are just fine, they just had an exposure. But you have to treat it as though the disease is present.”

How many exposed patients have been flown from West Africa to the U.S.? Thompson said medical privacy laws and his company’s contract with the State Department prevent him from revealing the figure.

“I’m not avoiding it,” Thompson told Yahoo News. “I’m just not allowed to talk about it.”

[BenLurkin]

Obama versus America.

Again.

[RinaseaofDs]

Indeed. What could go wrong?

[Jane Long]

HIPAA laws prevent disclosure of that information

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BS!

...Thompson said medical privacy laws and his company’s contract with the State Department prevent him from revealing the figure....

They can’t discuss personal information ABOUT individual patients, but they CAN discuss number of people being treated and general locations.

I think the key, here, is in the “contract his company has with the State Dept” and the “State Dept preventing him from revealing the figure”.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Flooding our country with Ebola victims may be a conscious effort on the part of the aliens currently administering our government to inflict further harm. Sooner or later the “Bug” is bound to escape into the general population.”

Ad the mysterious virus going around now? Anyone want to take odds that it is Ebola or a strain of it?

[Jedidah]

This is not news.

For example, the medical missionary organizations for whom Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol worked evacuated personnel as the epidemic grew. Writebol’s husband was among them.

They were flown back, but did not re-enter the population immediately. This group lived in voluntary quarantine in some isolated compound until it was obvious no infection was present. They lived in proximity to each other, but with no physical contact.

Makes perfect sense.

Private and cooperative evacuations are not a concern. A hot case on an airliner is — like the infected American/Liberian who tried his best to get back here but, thankfully, didn’t.

[fivecatsandadog]

How lovely. Are they American citizens, or potential refugees once “cured”?

[fivecatsandadog]

Makes sense to me.

[ealgeone]

Remember Obama's African Leaders Summit about six weeks ago? That was the purpose of the Summit, to guarantee access for the powerful and connected to American treatment here in the United States. The timing supports my case.

Concur with this assessment.

[Kartographer]

Everyone in the world has the 'RIGHT' to first class US paid healthcare.

[Charles Martel]

I’m sure that the CDP (Center for Disease Proliferation) knows what it’s doing, all is well.

[blackdog]

We need the tail number from that Gulfstream modified jet. If we get it, we can track their flights to and from where, and when. The only thing not public record is who? It’s even public record of the number of people on board.

[stig]

but they CAN discuss number of people being treated and general locations.

No you can't discuss any information that has a high likelihood of identifying an individual patient. That means you can't mention age above (85 YO) lets say since so few people are that age it becomes an identifying characteristic. In this case the relatively few number of cases. The relatively few number of people that were in Ebola parts of Africa and then flown here, the fact that they were sent to various parts of the country. It wouldn't take a super sleuth to put names on these people.

That said HIPPA is a horrible law and should be repealed. It is only there to protect politicians, celebrities and PC groups dependent on health care. From a public health standpoint it's a nightmare.

[BloomNTn]

A CDC employee was exposed to Ebola and was flown home by charter flight. That would account for one of the unidentified flights. Phoenix Air has contracts with CDC and DOD too.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/26385598/cdc-worker-returns-from-west-africa-low-risk-ebola-exposure

If a private group or government is going to the expense and trouble to hire Phoenix Air to fly people home, those people are probably not walking around the general population. I agree with Jedediah, we need to worry about people on airliners, not Phoenix Air charters.

Here is the tail number of the Phoenix Air plane:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N173PA

[JohnBovenmyer]

HIPAA got its start as part of HillaryCare, the only part she got through as First Witch. Its been made even worse since then.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[garjog]

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Vermont Lt]

HPPA, actually. Cannot release any information about any patients, any time.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[greeneyes]

Why can’t they set up some Ebola treatment centers and quarantine sites on some Islands somewhere?