Yikes, I was really hoping we had dodged a bullet with Duncan.
Duncan showed symptoms 9 days after he was thought to be exposed.
This healthcare worker could have been exposed anytime from the 24th when Duncan first presented to the hospital to October 8th when he died. Today’s the 12th. So anywhere from 4 to 19 days. Probably the latter. As greater precautions would have been taken after the 19th.
I’ve been hoping we’d dodged the bullet, too, but have expected this news to crop up.
They’re talking about it now and said the worker did treat Duncan and came down with a fever Friday.
You can sit and do the math on man-hours. For each single person that comes up with Ebola...you can figure at least 3,000 man-hours tied up into this guy, tracking his friends and family down, testing them, and trying to prevent further issues. You can figure by March of next year...at least 10,000 people in Texas who have contracted the disease, and the whole system overcome with man-hours that they can’t sustain. Just figure one single McDonalds that a guy might visit and having the entire crew put on quarantine. Or a Wal-Mart visit....where the 300 employees are now quarantined.
How about any other patients he/she had contact with?
I read the HCW started showing symptoms on Friday. Funny how we hear about every fake case immediately, but this one they wait days, till the Sunday before a Federal holiday, before revealing the news... Press conference at 730am CDT