Breaking Now : AFP: authorities say a second health worker in Texas has tested positive for Ebola

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[sunmars]

Just Breaking on News Wires now.

[Blue Highway]

lying Kenyan to be specific.

[jersey117]

I want to know why he’s not in isolation.

[wrench]

“And if 40% live so will 40% of good, strong Americans who will no longer put up with any kind of bullcrap. It will be the END of PC.”

They will return to their ME hell holes and be welcomed as heroes, just like the Lockerbie bomber.

Meanwhile, the 40% here will have to rebuild a shattered country.

[petercooper]

MRSA kills about 75,000 each year.

[dforest]

Obama would replace Friedan with another clone of Friedan.

It is no secret that the Obama admin does not put qualified and competent people in the ranks of his bureaucracy.

In all areas they place loyal hacks who may know nothing other than they spout the lies and nonsense put out by the WH or are loyal donors who worked for the campaigns.

Calling for Obama to replace Friedan or any other person is a waste and will do nothing. Apparently, The VA Chief was replaced and nothing has changed at the VA.

[maggief]

http://insiderlouisville.com/business/confirmed-drs-dan-varga-kim-alumbaugh-out-at-kentuckyone/

Confirmed: Drs. Dan Varga, Kim Alumbaugh out at KentuckyOne
by Terry Boyd

Two weeks after the University of Louisville and Catholic Health Initiatives/KentuckyOne announced a joint operating agreement, two major players in the first U of L/CHI merger have exited from Kentucky One.

Multiple insiders told Insider Louisville earlier this week that Dr. Dan Varga and his wife, Dr. Kim Alumbaugh, had left KentuckyOne simultaneously effective Monday.

We just got confirmation from CHI spokeswoman Barbara Mackovic:

Dr. Dan Varga made the decision to leave KentuckyOne Health. While his last day with KentuckyOne will be January 4, he is currently taking some time off during the holiday season. We appreciate his tenure with the organization and the contributions he has made during that time. Dr. Varga played a key role in the formation of the two-party merger to form KentuckyOne Health and has been a resource and liaison for KentuckyOne medical staff members. We wish him much success in his career. A national search is underway for Dr. Varga’s successor.

Mackovic stated in an email that she’s awaiting information on Alumbaugh.

Attempts to reach Varga and Alumbaugh directly were unsuccessful.

The news stunned Louisville’s medical community because – as one source noted – “Dan (Varga) was the guy who would be king. And rightfully so.”

Multiple sources told Insider Louisville back in 2010 and 2011 that Varga – an internal medicine physician and a member of the distinguished Varga family, who includes Brown-Forman CEO Paul Varga – was to be CEO of what was referred to internally as Kentucky Statewide Network.

At the time, Varga was St. Joseph Health System chief medical officer. He had previously been chief medical officer at Norton Healthcare, based in Louisville.

KSN would have been the statewide system created by merging Denver-based CHI’s St. Joseph Health System, based in Lexington, with Louisville-based Jewish Hospital & St. Mary Healthcare and University of Louisville Hospital and the University Medical Center.

Combined, the systems would have more than 3,000 physicians and more than 90 locations across Kentucky, with combined annual revenues of more than $2.7 billion.

But the first CHI/U of L Hospital merger proposal died an agonizing death after Kentucky officials nixed it over issues related to Roman Catholic Ethics and Religious Directives. ERDs and church strictures forbid abortion, contraception and living wills, with critics arguing successfully that Catholic orthodoxy would have conflicted with policy at the publicly funded U of L Hospital, a safety net and teaching hospital.

After the KSN merger died Dec. 30, CHI absorbed JHSMH, then forged all the disparate pieces into KentuckyOne last January.

Instead of Varga, though, CHI installed Ruth Brinkley as KentuckyOne CEO, leaving Varga the odd man out, say our sources.

Which leads us to Alumbaugh.

Before the merger – perhaps prematurely – JHSMH acquired Alumbaugh’s 30-physician Total Woman OBGYN practice in August, 2011.

Total Woman is one of several such practices JHSMH packed into three floors of the Jewish Medical Center East building at 4121 Dutchmans Lane in DuPont. While JHSMH doesn’t “own” the group, the practices have to observe Roman Catholic policy on reproductive procedures.

Insiders rate the departure of Varga, though, as the bigger story. During the first merger negotiations, Varga was a crucial part of the CHI negotiating team as well as the liaison between CHI officials and community leaders in Louisville concerned about restrictions on reproductive procedures and people’s end of life intentions.

In November, 2011, multiple sources confirmed to Insider Louisville that Varga held closed-door meetings with various groups such as the Louisville Board of Rabbis and Cantors to assure them Jewish Hospital would essentially remain unaltered by the CHI/JHSMH/U of L Hospital merger into KSN.

Varga’s pitch was that the merger would be equivalent to a giant corporation acquiring different consumer brands, but allowing those brands to retain their public identifies along with more autonomy than under the initial proposal.

More as we know more.

Ruth Brinkley
CEO at KentuckyOne Health

https://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=varga%2C+daniel&cycle=All&sort=R&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&submit=Submit

VARGA, DANIEL W
LOUISVILLE, KY 40241 PHYSICIAN 11/19/12 $500 Republican Party of Kentucky (R)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Frieden

Political party Democratic

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/health/16prof.html

Part of the agency’s embrace of Dr. Frieden probably has to do with politics. Despite being in a Republican state, the disease centers’ staff, like much of the public health world, is overwhelmingly Democratic, so employees tend to prefer directors appointed by Democratic presidents.

[AJFavish]

See below for the link to Dr. Gupta’s demonstration, and then compare to Obama’s CDC Director Tom Frieden’s defense of the CDC protocol demonstrated by Dr. Gupta. Go to 4:35 into the video to hear Dr. Frieden answer the question from Megyn Kelly as to whether the CDC protocol is sufficient. He says it is sufficient.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3839649788001/cdc-director-our-information-is-clear-and-correct/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/10/13/ac-sot-gupta-ebola-hazardous-material-suits.cnn.html

Watch in horror as Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN demonstrates why the CDC protocol for removing protective clothing after being in the presence of Ebola is deeply flawed. The protocol does not require all of the body to be protected. The protocol does not require being treated with bleach before the clothing is removed. The protocol involves the person removing the suit to perform awkward and imprecise movements that will definitely lead to exposure in some cases.

[Safetgiver]

We need to quit calling it the Ebola epidemic or the HN whatever the hell it is killing kids all over America, and start calling with EVERY thread, political speech and news article “The Democrats Biological Warfare on America”. Please help.

[Shelayne]

The death rate was always that high. WHO was just taking all the cases and counting those as “survived”, when most of those patients would later die. The 47% and 50% numbers were always suspect.

In some areas the CFR is higher than 70%.

WHO reported that we may soon see 10,000 cases per week. MSF has repeatedly said that the “official” case numbers being reported represent only 20% of reality. Those are very alarming numbers.

[Blue Highway]

Shepard Smith would just change the goalposts... “Well there you have it, only gays are affected by Ebola”

[RetSignman]

The first airline that puts a sign up in terminals WORLDWIDE that WE DON’T FLY INTO AFRICA OR ALLOW BOARDING OF PASSENGERS FROM ANY CONNECTING FLIGHTS OUT OF AFRICA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, will become the ‘go to’ airline.

[wrench]

“MRSA kills about 75,000 each year.”

And cars kill 50.000 a year. What is your point?

Does MRSA have a 60 to 70% fatality rate? Those exposed to MRSA will mostly survive. Those exposed to ebola will mostly die.

[servantboy777]

Where is the family? What about the 5 school children that came in contact with Duncan?

This guy was throwing up and reported explosive bowel movements....and no other person in that tiny apartment became exposed?

Quite curious.

[Moonman62]

It cannot be spread simply by being near someone who is infected. People only become contagious after they begin to have symptoms.

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That’s what they want us to believe.

[Blue Highway]

exactly. I cant stand false arguments that “X” kills far more people per year, but “X” is not an infectious disease with no cure. Those people never mention this. Sad to see a Freeper with this mentality.

[CommieCutter]

I guess I’m going to have to be a racist to want to protect myself. These people are dirty scum to think they have the right to walk around and infect everyone else. Idiots.

[servantboy777]

>>...perfectly fine for these nurses to be in the room with Duncan without face coverings or shoe coverings...<<

I watched with unbelief when this guy defended this position—twice!

Man oh man, I wouldn't get near an Ebola patient without a body rubber and respirator. Then once I exited the room, exit only through a room with sanitation nozzles from floor to ceiling that totally misted you down with Super Duper Ebola Elimination Stuff and ever-thang.

[kelly4c]

The nation is obsessed with sex. I believe that’s why there’s such a fixation on gay sex and sex-confused cross dressers, etc. it’s just an extention of that obsession.

[RetSignman]

“Well there you have it, only gays are affected by Ebola”
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I would think he would say that with panic written all over his face.

[Girlene]

The CDC has an excuse on their website that the reason they use the full gear in West Africa is because the conditions are so much worse (less clean, going from one ebola patient to another, etc.) than in US hospitals.

Either Frieden is in denial or he is one extremely stupid man. Either way, you are right, these guidelines for health workers in the US are dangerous.