Posted on 10/09/2014 11:20:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death Wednesday morning as the other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus.
'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before. This is the first time,' Duncan's furious nephew Joe Weeks told ABC.
Weeks and others in Duncan's family are calling his treatment 'unfair,' after seeing other patients pulled from the brink of death in government-funded evacuation planes and using life-saving blood transfusions and cutting edge drugs.
Five US citizens have been diagnosed with Ebola and three of them have beaten it. NBC News cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, the latest American victim, arrived at the infectious disease ward at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this week for treatment. A fourth victim, a World Health Organization doctor, is being treated in Atlanta.
All five have been flown to specially designed infectious disease wards in Nebraska or Atlanta for treatment by some of the world's top doctors.
The anger from Duncan's family also stems from what happened before Duncan was seen by doctors but after he fell ill - when the Liberian was initially turned sent home by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital - the same hospital that later admitted him.
'What if they had taken him right away? And what if they had been able to get treatment to him earlier,' said Dallas pastor George Mason, a confidante of the family's, according to a CNN report.
While Mason told reporters that Duncan's fiance Louise Troh 'is not seeking to create any kinds of divisions in our community,' she has called for a full review of his medical care.
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The ZMapp is indeed a miracle cure, and fights the viruses by having antibodies dull the virus's spikes that attach to cells. But they really don't have much of it, and are as we speak trying to create more of it by synthesizing it inside tobacco plants, which can create the antibodies they need. There's no profit in it so there's not a lot of PharmCo investment in it.
It's so scarce that they had to split up one dosage between two patients who were American missionaries in Liberia.
What, they’re not going to pay his bill?
Because he lied and deserved it.
I wonder what they’d do if we all “admitted” every “racist” thing they accused us of and went along with it as if it was normal...
Even though he should have been booted OUT as soon as it was clear he was here illegally
Apparently we will be considered a nice country when we design a special hospital ward for every diseased illegal alien blowing into town.
The total bill for this ONE patient was $500,000.
But we’re STILL “raciss”.
How much would Liberia spend on YOU...?
I think that is exactly what happened, he was black, no insurance, and not a US citizen. The family needs to immediately go global with their complaints and make sure Africans are aware of the deplorable treatment Duncan received in America.
....so far.
What if he was honest on his flight form about his contact with Ebola?
What if he had not possibly infected others?
What if he lived with his choices and died at home with dignity instead of feeling so entitled to come here for himself that he brought Ebola here with him?
Close the borders.
He died because Darwin deals with murderers, meting out justice with an assist by Karma.
this effing murderer put so many people in danger and may very well be the cause of death to the innocents he endangered.
He’s dead, so I can’t wish for that.
however, I hope he burns in hell.
Because you uncle didn’t care that he infected as many people as possible before seeking treatment.
Mr. Duncan may have died because of his failure to tell the hospital medical personnel from the start that he thought he had Ebola because he was a Liberian who had just arrived in the US, and that shortly before leaving Liberia, he was direct contact with someone who died of Ebola. Instead, on his first visit to the hospital ER, Mr. Duncan talked vaguely of having recently been in Liberia and having a fever. In the circumstances, that was not enough to trigger immediate suspicion of Ebola.
GTFO of America and go back to your 3 rd World shite hole.
The jerk KNOWINGLY lied on his emigration forms and then exposed dozens of people to Ebola and his immigrant family has the nerve to question the FREE health care he is given? Pack every one of them up and send their ungrateful a$$es back to Africa!
Jesse Jackson killed him. Jesse didn’t care about any of the others.
Because they didn’t lie to doctors about their exposure to the disease?
He did pay for the evacuation. However, the doses of ZMAPP were donated. Due to the paperwork they had to go through to try the experimental drug, the manufacturer is not allowed to charge for it. They may have paid a lot to navigate the system for approval.
There was no time, I suspect, even if his “family” knew how to apply for status to test the drug (if any is available). His lies cut short his chances. You could even say leaving Liberia only gave him a chance to die in more comfort at the cost of exposing many who would not have been otherwise exposed.
They ended up giving Dr. Brantley the lion's share of the dose because he was in worse shape. Dr. Writebol fortunately recovered enough for her to be brought to the US for more treatment.
ZMapp is more about buying time. Ebola kills you before you can produce enough of the antibodies to fight it off. ZMapp stops the virus from being able to spread quickly, and buys your body time so that you don't deteriorate to the point that your immune system is overwhelmed.
Me too. I was also infuriated when I read an article that said that Jesse Jackson came to visit to plant that seed in their heads.
He’s dead because he was automatically signed up for Obamacare, then sealed in a locked room out of sight.
Wasted air fare.
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