Posted on 10/12/2014 9:22:58 AM PDT by bestintxas
A just-concluded press conference in Dallas, featuring grim-faced officials, revealed that the anonymous worker at the hospital who came down with Ebola followed all CDC procedures, including the use of an isolation suit. Nonetheless, we were told not to worry. Yeah, right. Are they trying to convince people that we are being lied to? When they as good as admit they don’t know how to prevent infections, then telling us to be confident in their medical response accomplishes just the opposite: it spreads panic. Meanwhile, we are lectured to trust them and to keep allowing people form the plague region into the United States because their oh-so-effective measures will catch people who have a 21 day incubation period. This is just amazing. Why would anyone believe people who in effect say, “We don’t know how to prevent transmission of the disease, but trust us, and don’t worry.”
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Agreed. Not practical or possible in today's world in standard hospitals. Something you could maybe imagine 50 years from now in a Jetson's medical clinic if society hasn't regressed to the dark ages.
Agree, shows many are trying to leave to come here knowingly already infected. Will likely also infect workers screening them
Then explain how MSF has set up far more adequate protection for their workers in the 3rd world?
They at least cover their hair. And have a mandatory bleach washdown before removal of the protective gear.
We’re not doing either one of those.
Guess which group is at greater risk of ‘being human’?
I personally don't think that's an adequate explanation. The first time a patient vomits or has diarrhea or coughs up due to the infection it is plenty infectious enough.
I heard Freidan. It sounded to me like he was CONCLUDING that the protocol was breached somehow, because if it isn't we're screwed, and there's a major medical panic coming. He didn't say HOW it was breached, he just assumed it was.
My comment wasn’t with respect to “adequate protection”, it was relative to strict Level 4 compliance.
For perspective, the natural voids in latex when scaled to the width of a football field are no barrier to a virus particle the size of a football. That is the size disparity for HIV.
Obviously MSF doesn’t have strict level 4 compliance.
They are batting nearly 1000 on protecting their workers though.
With one patient so far in this country being taken care out of a bhl4 level facility, we’re striking out with protecting caregivers.
I suspect that the worker got the virus on herself when taking her suit off.
She dresses up in the clean suit, goes in to tend to Duncan, gets virus on the suit, then gets it on/in herself somehow, while taking it off.
An alternative theory of mine is that the suit wasn’t fully decontaminated after the last use, and she got the virus on/in herself from the suit.
Ebola!
It's festive.
It's like a parade with free buffet and jumping cheerleaders with pompoms and a band playing and a big silvery moon, with fireworks and party hats and streamers and cotton candy on a summer night by a glass-smooth lake as you hold the one you love in front of a roaring fire on a bearskin rug, while you overlook the mountains of Aspen from the deck of your expensive yacht.
It's like getting on a magic carousel ride with real ponies and free chicken wings and cheesy chips with running beer fountains on a sunny cloudless day with beautiful music playing!
Kittens!
Clouds!
Bunnies!
The cop might be all right. It’s not like she puked on the sidewalk or anything (that we know of).
They aren’t deconning the suits. They’re tossing them after each use.
What they are NOT doing is covering their head/hair and having a bleach solution spraydown prior to taking off the suits.
Both of which are currently being done in the third world. Why can’t we do those simple things in our advanced healthcare system?
Don't be silly! They'll NEVER do th--- [Sound of plug being pulled]
I hope they’re incinerating the suits somewhere. That virus is a b*tch.
“thanks for the photo. Looks like the person is protected by a shower curtain, kitchen rubber gloves, and has nothing over her head. Her hair will most assuredly pick up ebola. The virus likes furry gorillas, bats, chimps. And chumps.”
I still get goose bumps and the hair on my lower arms stands up when I see that photo of the really unprotected medical care gal in CDC’s fatal recommendation for protective gear.
Now for another scary piece of data for everyone. How does the following impact us/you/your loved ones.
“No worries America. We have nineteen, 19 level four biocontainment beds in America for 317,000,000 people.
The epidemiologist told me that he would rather have been a proctologist than a dental hygienist in the eighties. He advised me to double glove and wear a plastic face shield to protect from spatters.
Supposedly emory had many tractor tailer loads of infected refuse that needed to be incinerated. From just 2 patients.
I heard there were 40 or 80 trash bags full of contaminated stuff from Emory.
“Send all of the new ebola patients to DC hospitals......see how long the flights from west africa continue.”
Better suggestion, Send all new ebola patients and incoming ebola exposed air travelers to the Capitol Rotunda and let the stay where our Senate and House of Reps meet. Then, send those with documented Ebola to live with the occupants of the White House and the CDC headquarters.
Did anyone say how they were disposed of?
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