Posted on 10/01/2014 9:22:18 PM PDT by knak
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S., wasn't appropriately treated for suspected infection until after his nephew personally called the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nephew told NBC News on Wednesday night, saying he hoped "nobody else got infected because of a mistake that was made."
Health officials have acknowledged that Duncan, 42, was initially sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas when he showed up on Sept. 26 complaining of fever and abdominal pain. He was sent home and had to return two days later in an ambulance.
That was the day "I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was concerned for his life and he wasn't getting the appropriate care," Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News on Wednesday night. "I feared other people might also get infected if he wasn't taken care of, and so I called them to ask them why is it a patient that might be suspected of this disease was not getting appropriate care?"
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We owe the nephew. He’s the only one in this saga who showed good sense.
I think so. Four people who came in contact with the woman Duncan helped carry died. So he booked it over here.
” He knew he was infected. He booked it out of that hell hole to come here for treatment.”
His plane landed in Dallas on Sept 20th. He didn’t feel ill until Sept 24th. That’s the timeline that we know. He knew that he had been exposed to ebola but he couldn’t know that he was infected.
People need to hold Obama culpable for ebola getting here and not the sick guy. Obama could shut down travel to and from west Africa and he isn’t doing it.
He should be put in a suit then on a plane and flown right back to the hole he came from.
I wonder what the average patient load is at this hospital. It sounds like they have some serious Personnel issues or the staff is burned out. Most, if not all major hospitals were given briefs on the illness and directed to be alert for certain conditions like having been to Africa and severe vomiting. It could have come down to one nurse not doing her job or a Doctor not doing his. A certain arrogance is developed after seeing and doing the same thing over and over. You’ve seen it all, blah blah, next patient.
Welcome to the meat grinder called American emergency care.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Even the best hospital’s ER Admitting staff leave a great deal to be desired and usually with some Affirmative Action attitude.
Likely the Country of Origin info never reached the Presbyterian ER Med Staff.
Just heard on radio that he was not only at a funeral in Liberia but had helped carry the dead body and that everyone there KNEW Ebola was involved. Opportune time for him to come visit the fam huh? And I skies as well as border are wide open to any and all diseased, even deadly ones apparently. Just wow.
The thing is....even this is not enough for the American public & their psychotic attachment to liberalism, open borders & every other modern liberal nostrum to back away from the death cult that is the democratic party.
Rush nailed it when responding to the CDC’s press report concerning Duncan. He indicated the Administration is more concerned about offending the infected than fighting the disease.
They’re handling it a lot like AIDS. Leave people at risk so the infected don’t “feel bad.” I wonder if likely Ebola patients will be next to demand to donate blood?
Why call the CDC? Why not call the hospital or go with him and tell THEM he was in contact with Ebola patients? If you tell the hospital staff he probably has Ebola and they send him home with Cipro, THEN call the CDC. Proves darn well the victim and family knew exactly what he had. If I thought I had it and they tried to send me away, I wouldn’t budge.
Ew, what a vile, pointy tongue it has.
Symptoms of Ebola include vomiting and diarrhea, not sneezing and coughing. Ebola is a systemic disease, not a respiratory one, and is transmitted by close contact with an infected patient or their bodily fluids. You've described how influenza is spread, not Ebola. While influenza *is* a killer, it does not help to avoid disease by getting confused on the routes of transmission.
The CDC had nothing to do with the fact that this guy was sent home after his first trip to the ER. He told staff at the hospital that he was from Liberia, and that local hospital failed to take the proper actions at that time. No doubt, there will be some remedial training for everyone at that hospital because of this mistake. You can't blame the CDC--they're pushing guidelines to every health care facility in the country on how to deal with this.
He wasn’t getting the appropriate treatment? Makes me think he didn’t tell them he’d just flown in from Liberia after spending quality time with a Ebola infected woman.....
So without that, he’d still be infecting hundreds of people?
I hope I don’t sound snarky, but... It’s all part of the ‘plan’.
I remember my dad telling me that hospitals were a place to go to die. Coming soon to your local hospital.
The nurse or physician who gave the Ebola patient antibiotics and sent him home may be indicative of another problem we have been creating for decades...most of us have experienced the dull, slothful hand of affirmative action at least a few times. It is hard to fit this mentality into a fast moving, high stakes environment where critical thinking skills are required. Not saying this was definitely a factor here but at some point it will be.
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