“I heard that number, 70, earlier and can’t believe it. How stupid are these people? You want the least number of people necessary to be in contact.”
As explained on another website, this represents days off, different shifts, different departments, etc...
In a Union Hospital, you aren’t going to get 24/7 coverage with just one or two people.
“I heard that number, 70, earlier and can’t believe it. How stupid are these people? You want the least number of people necessary to be in contact.”
As explained on another website, this represents days off, different shifts, different departments, etc...
In a Union Hospital, you aren’t going to get 24/7 coverage with just one or two people.
You are correct. Also, it is not just the nurses who are in contact with the patient. Think about the staff in the laboratory and the radiology departments, just to name a few and consider staffing these places 25 hours a day, 5 days a week. As a retired medical laboratory technologist, I am wondering how they handled all the various lab specs that came from that one patient. Did they set up a miniature lab separate from the main lab to avoid cross contamination and spread of the Ebola virus?
Oh, and I am certain this man was on dialysis which requires specialists around the clock too. I wonder how man of those isolation suits a hospital needs to take care of just one patient?
You could do it on shifts with about 25 people. 70 is absurd.