Posted on 10/12/2014 2:40:49 AM PDT by Drago
Health care worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, hospital says in a statement.
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A lot of iso wards do not have showers. A previous poster mentioned areas in hospitals in which there are showers, but that would interrupt hospital flow.
Most hospitals have stairways, which are cement. They would be easy to sterilize daily with bleach sprayed on the floors and walls. That could be the easiest way to transport workers to a tent outside the stairway door.
OK, so large interior shower facilities are typically poorly located for such purpose? Minimizing distance to an exterior tent would be good I’d think. Locate an ad hoc Ebola isolation ward close to ground floor, or are existing isolation wards preferable regardless?
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My guess is that the reason that Duncan came to the US is because he told his family that he had been exposed and they told him to come. He came, but isolated himself from the family, taking care of himself and performing his own clean-up. The guy had been living with the virus all around him and he knew how it spread.
My sympathy disappeared for this “Family” once they started going on TV and blaming white people for Duncan’s death..Ebola is a HORRIBLE disease, it kills 70 percent of those infected. If Duncan had stayed in Liberia he would have died in 2 days tops..yet he comes here, exposes everyone around him to it, and his family has the nerve to blame America for it..they can take their garbage and just the F out..because of them we all have to worry about this crap now..and you have Obama and his minions enjoying every minute of it, they like it that people are being infected
I recall that three people (a doctor and two nurses?) were put on quarantine for 21 days after Duncan showed up. Hopefully it was one of them so as to reduce the spread.
Prayers for healing.
Well, Obama and his followers may be enjoying seeing Americans frightened for their lives, but it won’t help them win elections. American voters are overwhelmingly turning against open borders. The new name for the enterovirus that is paralyzing and killing is now, the “Open Borders Flu”.
Suspected Ebola case isolated at Braintree clinic
A man who turned up at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates urgent-care offices in Braintree this afternoon complaining of a headache and other Ebola-like systems has been quarantined as a precaution, according to the Braintree Fire Department.Firefighter Joe Zanca said the man was isolated “based on his travel history.”
“you are escorted to the Ebola ward , which could be in an outside tent.”
I’ve been meaning for years to put up a little roof over the basement door to get out of the rain and change boots, etc. I finally did it. With part of my thinking that it will make an ok transition/decon zone if my basement needs to be for sick people in my family - may God forbid.
I suspect the same..especially if none of the family members come down with it. Reports were that when he was throwing up all outside between the ambulance and his apartment..his family members were ‘screaming’ and crying.
And you know he had to be getting phone calls from the folks back in Liberia telling him that the people who helped him with the dead woman were dying as well.
If that wasn't intended as sarcasm, however poorly worded, you owe FReeper kaila a very contrite apology for that outrageously pompous bullshit.
The race card isn't accepted at FR, and I'm quite surprised no else has slammed you for it.
The plan was healthcare and not insurance. I figured the plan was to make insurance so expensive (which they have done), then they can come in and rescue us from the greedy insurance companies, and the greedy doctors. But, they can work with this too. (”Treating a nation-wide epidemic on a hospital by hospital basis will not work. A centralized and consistent protocal is needed. And only the government has the ability to do that. Our hospitals need to be run like our interstate highways.”)
I’d be largely reassured by a mandatory quarantine of 3 to 4 weeks for anyone coming here under a passport from the so-called hot zone or returning from there, and restricting their arrival to the five international airports equipped to handle detecting possibly infected individuals.
We’ve already gotten an outbreak in Dallas, with patients also going into isolation scattered all around the country, though. Ebola wards will need to be created, I don’t see how this can be avoided.
In my opinion, modern hospitals have gotten too comfortable and cute, by the way. All manner of permeable carpet, upholstery, doodads, handmade wall art like an elementary school, nurses aides who make me uncomfortable in the same way certain fast food workers make me uncomfortable, they just don’t seem all that clean, healthy or bright.
This will force a shake-out. It’ll also force a return to that hospital smell that makes my heart race, I associate it with tragedy and death among my loved ones. But, it’s the scent of a disinfected space, and it sure needs to be.
I’d be largely reassured by a mandatory quarantine of 3 to 4 weeks for anyone coming here under a passport from the so-called hot zone or returning from there, and restricting their arrival to the five international airports equipped to handle detecting possibly infected individuals.
We’ve already gotten an outbreak in Dallas, with patients also going into isolation scattered all around the country, though. Ebola wards will need to be created, I don’t see how this can be avoided.
In my opinion, modern hospitals have gotten too comfortable and cute, by the way. All manner of permeable carpet, upholstery, doodads, handmade wall art like an elementary school, nurses aides who make me uncomfortable in the same way certain fast food workers make me uncomfortable, they just don’t seem all that clean, healthy or bright.
This will force a shake-out. It’ll also force a return to that hospital smell that makes my heart race, I associate it with tragedy and death among my loved ones. But, it’s the scent of a disinfected space, and it sure needs to be.
I dont think they care about the elections..they know the Senate will go GOP so they figure what the hell, have Ebola infect as many Conservatives as possible..and you have the Enterovirus infecting hundreds of children and killing them..and that disease came from South America so yet again, the Obama virus is spreading
Bingo. If this starts to spin out of control...people will clamor for federal control of all major hospitals. I bet Obama and his fellow Marxists are salivating at the thought. If they get control..they will never relinquish it. Some hospitals may even ask for it as a protection from lawsuits. Mark my word. Some in this country want this virus rampant here...think of how much they can take advantage!
I am trying to clean my house, watch the news, and post here.
I just saw on CNN a profile about how a hospital ER in NY would handle Ebola patients coming in the door. They showed an isolation room.
I just laughed out loud.
The room had no anteroom, the glass doors slide open to expose the patient to the outside hallway. That was no isolation room.
Where is the decontamination area? It is just a room with a large sliding glass door.
Pathetic.
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