Posted on 10/12/2014 7:06:41 AM PDT by maggief
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there was "clearly" a breach in protocol that led to a Texas health care worker contracting Ebola after treating a Liberian man who later died from the virus, although authorities do not yet know what that breach was.
"We're deeply concerned about this new development," Dr. Thomas Frieden said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. "I think the fact that we don't know of a breach in protocol is concerning because clearly there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of Ebola by caring safely for patients."
"The fact is that the individual who became ill was, as per protocol, self monitoring. Immediately when they developed symptoms they isolated themselves, they were promptly isolated at the hospital so that any further spread from that individual was stopped," Frieden added.
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“Can’t have that. There’s an election coming up”
Maybe this is a way to keep Texans from coming out to the polls.
Thanks, no one person could possibly think of all the variations these days.
Can we stop commercial air travel out of Ebola hot zones now? Pretty please?
Not very reassuring, is it?
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These bureaucrats had better start worrying. The folks are going to be very unhappy if there are a few more cases here. Very very unhappy.
WFAA newsie says that up to 18 people at the hospital may have had direct contact with the contaminated healthcare worker.
I cannot find a complete video of this event. Has it been pulled? What has president obola to say about this?
Exactly, just like failing with ISIS. Once the elections are over Obama will be sending troops back to Iraq. But many will die just so the democrats can win a couple of districts. this is what has become of the United States.
"Workplace breach of protocol"
Yeah, this CDC head is worse than an embarrassment, he’s a potentially deadly embarrassment!! The guy seems to be existing in an alternate universe or something.
Stopping travel from a country where the infection and sick people are will WORSEN THE SPREAD????? WTF!! My Seven year old kid could figure this out.
Only a leftist moonbat academic could apply such a ‘thought’ process to a situation like this by not having any common sense what-so-ever. GOD, we are SO SCREWED!
Nicely put. Says it all in one short sentence.
It’s the Wendy Davis ebola/obola ‘Save Me’ - I tried making fun of Greg Abbott in his wheelchair, but it didn’t work so let’s scare the voters to death.
I have a wet blanket soaked in bleach.
Thanks.
I love it.
How DARE he-the self-serving son of a bitch? ?? Does he actually believe any nurse treating an end-stage Ebola case would not follow PROTOCOL? ??
What's at issue is, is the "protocol" adequate?
CDC says THIS:
1) Are U.S. hospitals ready to care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD)? Yes – any U.S. hospital that is following CDC's infection control recommendations and can isolate a patient in a private room is capable of safely managing a patient with EVD. CDC recommends that U.S. hospitals isolate the patient in a private room and implement standard, contact, and droplet precautions.
2, 3, 4 omitted
5) Why do responders in Africa wear so much personal protective equipment (that can include full body suits) for this Ebola outbreak when CDC says hospitals here could safely manage the care of an Ebola patient without a full body suit? There are important differences between providing care or performing public health tasks in Africa versus in a U.S. hospital. In field medical settings, additional PPE may be necessary to protect healthcare workers. In some places in Africa, workers may not have the ability to prepare for potential exposures. For example, in some places, care may be provided in clinics with limited resources (e.g., no running water, no climate control, no floors, inadequate medical supplies), and workers could be in those areas for several hours with a number of Ebola infected patients. Additionally, certain job responsibilities and tasks, such as attending to dead bodies, may also require different PPE than what is used when providing care for infected patients in a hospital.
I'm sure the nurse did as she was told to do. I'm also sure she did NOT do THIS:
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Our national policy is to allow persons who arrive from the hot zone to have free movement after they leave the airport. If this is your policy (and that is, for now, top line policy, that which cannot be changed, that which everything below the line must conform to) - if that is your policy, it must follow that "any U.S. hospital that is following CDC's infection control recommendations and can isolate a patient in a private room is capable of safely managing a patient with EVD".
For, if that is not true, WHAT ON EARTH IS OUR LEADERSHIP DOING ALLOWING INFECTED PEOPLE UNLIMITED ACCESS TO ALL AREAS OF THE COUNTRY???
Can one nurse put on and take off the correct "standard" PPE, one time, without infecting herself from germs on the PPE? Sure.
Can 100 nurses do it without a single error 100 times? No, not a chance.
And so, either top line national policy has to change, patients will have to be moved to biocontainment units separate from general wards that are staffed by people in space suits (nobody got infected at Emory) - but there are only 30-40 beds in the country so staffed - or Ebola will spread here, first to doctors and nurses, then in their communities.
Cause of Death on Death Certificate: “Workplace breach of protocol, Bush’s Fault”
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