Posted on 10/13/2014 9:52:13 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A patient is being tested for Ebola at Baptist Health in Downtown Jacksonville.
Hospital officials says they have admitted a patient who has flu-like symptoms, but no fever.
The person told hospital staff that they has casual contact with a person who travelled to West Africa.
Officials say the patient is in isolation and is being monitored to protect hospital staff and the community.
There is no confirmation that the patient has Ebola, and hospital officials sayy the diagnosis is "highly unlikely."
Baptist Health says they are exercising caution and using CDC protocols.
30 miles from here.
Good way to overload the system (and get free health care) Tell them ‘a friend of a friend’ went to Africa, now you have a headache.
Considering that it takes about 50 times as much to treat one person suspected of Ebola, this could get out of control quickly (even WITHOUT the actual disease)
If I were CDC/the administration, I’d be urging people to get their flu shots to reduce the number of Ebola scares. I might get one myself this year (I skipped last year because I have modest adverse reactions to the shot).
FL.
“I might get one myself this year (I skipped last year because I have modest adverse reactions to the shot).”
Same here...
Getting mine on Thursday.
And if it does spread far? Non-ebola patients will suffer.
Dialysis? Chemotherapy? Trauma? Can't help you the way we used too -- we're totally overloaded. And outside of the medical world -- if people panic, they won't go to work. Power generation, food distribution, mass transit -- a lot of stuff could shut down even in the early stages of a bad situation.
The media has been training Americans to panic for years -- we've become quite good at being irrational.
Bttt
>>Considering that it takes about 50 times as much to treat one person suspected of Ebola, this could get out of control quickly (even WITHOUT the actual disease)
Cloward-Piven! Why do you think President Pen and Phone is bringing Obola here?
We won’t need any panic for the system to overload. A major city hospital was shut down because of 1 case. 100 cases could shut down 100 hospitals I guess.
I got a bad cut in my hand from bush trimming last week. It’s in my palm where it wants to open up constantly. No I did not seek medical help even though I am sure they would have put in stitches. I will live.
Someday — we’re all gonna die.
‘The person told hospital staff that they has casual contact with a person’
Must be a typo.
“Baptist Health says they are exercising caution and using CDC protocols.”
Well, I’m going to sleep well tonight, knowing that.
Just got mine. They were offering them free at work.
As such, we need a clear, standardized step on recognizing the true symptoms of Ebola, because we're jumping to conclusions for all the wrong reasons.
North or south?...............or west...............
If I knew anybody who had been in West Africa recently, I’d run the other way and not stop to apologize.
“As such, we need a clear, standardized step on recognizing the true symptoms of Ebola, because we’re jumping to conclusions for all the wrong reasons.”
Meanwhile, the CDC’s Freidman said today that they are telling hospitals to “Think Ebola” just to be safe.
they’ll probably take care oh him for 10 years.....if he doesn’t die first
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