Health officials struggle to control the media narrative about Ebola

The Hill ^ | Oct 12, 2014 | Elise Viebeck

[Innovative]

The Obama administration is battling for control of the media narrative about Ebola as conditions worsen in West Africa and fears of an outbreak mount in the United States.

Health officials insist the virus will be contained and stress the potential for infection is remote. While Ebola is frightening, says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden, health officials "know how to stop it."

[Innovative]

In the meantime...

"Dr. Daniel Varga, of the Texas Health Resource, said the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to the hospital. " -- as was pointed out at the Press conference.

[gusopol3]

Ezekiel Emanuel: “We have gloves.”

[Don Corleone]

Nothing, repeat nothing coming from this administration can or should be believed. NOTHING!

[allendale]

The commissars that run the CDC are more concerned about enforcing the one world/open borders ideology of Obama than protecting the health and well being of the American people. Science must conform to the politically correct delusions of the leader Obama. Reminiscent of Lysenko.

[Mouton]

They are circling the wagons trying to contain the frenzy which will happen once this evolves into a full scale pandemic which could have been contained except for the PC crowd in the Oval office. Unfortunately with the long term voting sessions we have now, every day that goes by gives the dems a bit more insulation in the coming election. If election day were the only day one could vote except for absentee, they would be assured of being gone for office not so that the Bonehead contintingent is much better.

[null and void]

"Dr. Daniel Varga, of the Texas Health Resource, said the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to the hospital. " -- as was pointed out at the Press conference.

and then this happened:

Bring Out Your Dead

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...

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They have been lying to the public which is not surprising. The fact is the virus is an airborne virus and you can get it just as easily as catching a cold. The virus lives outside of “bodily fluids” for 6 days. For example if you touch a doorknob that has the virus and put your fingers in your mouth you will get Ebola. Same with sneezing, if someone sneezes the virus gets expelled into the air and if you breathe it in you will get Ebola. This stuff where they are comparing it to AIDs is utter utter crap. HIV doesn’t kill you in 21 days and you can’t get HIV by touching a doorknob. We are in a big trouble. There is a major pandemic coming and we got idiots in charge.

[PieterCasparzen]

Struggle to put out the sheer volume of propaganda their masters have instructed them to...

[Morpheus2009]

I daily struggle to not want to give these people the Rasputin treatment. A painful way to die, but if their incompetence causes the agonizing Ebola liquification form of death, it’s probably fitting.

[samtheman]

The check is in the mail.

I promise I won’t...

We’re from the government and we’re here to help.

And now the latest:

The chance of an outbreak is remote.

[rdcbn]

The Obama administration is battling for control of the media narrative about Ebola as conditions worsen in West Africa and fears of an outbreak mount in the United States.

In other words, they are trying to cover up their criminally incompetent, inept, indecisive and ineffective response and deflect the blame anywhere except where it well and truly belongs - on them

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

You have to ask yourself this: If Ebola can only be contracted through bodily fluids, then why are they wearing full body protection and full face masks? Because they are lying, it is a virus you can get from merely breathing it in.

[Tucker39]

May the same fate come upon THIS demented tyrant as seems to have befallen the little pot bellied dog eater in NK.

[TomGuy]

Health officials struggle to control the media narrative about Ebola

That is possibly one of the most truthful statements about this outbreak.

Politics. They are more concerned about keeping the media (and official Washington) narrative, regardless of the validity.

[originalbuckeye]

‘The Obama administration is battling for control of the media narrative about Ebola as conditions worsen in West Africa and fears of an outbreak mount in the United States’

Remember Anita Dunn? Obola’s former head of Communications? She said (about the first pResidential campaign) ‘the smartest thing we did was control the Media’ (paraphrase). They are losing control of their sycophants. I guess the sycophants are awakening to the FACT that they are not protected either. Boo Hoo! Welcome to the world of Obola peons. You are no longer special when you can no longer help the pResident.

[palmer]

The fact is the virus is an airborne virus and you can get it just as easily as catching a cold.

That's not a fact at all. If it were there would a vertical line in Africa, not thousands of cases but millions. Second, the people in the apartment that housed Duncan, plus the "stepdaughter" and her family would all have it by now.

[palmer]

Because they are lying, it is a virus you can get from merely breathing it in.

A droplet from vomit or saliva or blood will transmit the virus. But the virus does not aerosolize like the influenza virus does.

[babygene]

“Second, the people in the apartment that housed Duncan, plus the “stepdaughter” and her family would all have it by now.”

How do you know they don’t? Do you really think that would be made public? Notice no one has heard from them in a while...

[bestintxas]

they are having a tough time ever since the idiot-in-chief proclaimed “ The chances of an Ebola outbreak in the United States are “extremely low,” Obama said.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/16/remarks-president-ebola-outbreak

It is very difficult to cover for lies, and even more so if it is sheer incompetency.

[Red in Blue PA]

What USED TO BE on the Web page of the CDC as of 8/2/14:

“In this guidance healthcare personnel (HCP) refers all persons, paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, or contaminated air. “

https://web.archive.org/web/20140802085653/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html

Also.......

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates

A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.