PING!
Posted on 10/15/2014 8:04:11 PM PDT by blam
Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade, Reuters
October 15, 2014
DALLAS (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who has contracted Ebola told a U.S. health official she had a slight fever and was allowed to board a plane from Ohio to Texas, a federal source said on Wednesday, intensifying concerns about the U.S. response to the deadly virus.
Amber Vinson, 29, flew from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas, on Monday, the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Vinson told the CDC her temperature was 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius). Since that was below the CDC's temperature threshold of 100.4F, "she was not told not to fly," the source said. The news was first reported by CNN.
Chances that other passengers were infected were very low, but the nurse should not have been on the flight, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters.
Vinson was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said. She had treated Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola on Oct. 8 and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States.
Vinson, a worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, had taken a Frontier Airlines flight to Cleveland from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday. She returned to Dallas on Monday aboard Frontier Flight 1143.
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Go right ahead ,we need to spread this before the election ,D’oh
We need to make a timeline. I was under the impression she was one of Mr. Duncan’s caregivers, so how could she have had ebola before boarding a flight to Dallas?
So Dr Frieden whats the standard?
Is a fever 100.4 ( the oral temp standard we use everyday clinically) or not?
If not WHAT DO WE USE?
The confusion grows every day with these clowns
I understand that she flew from Dallas to Cleveland and then made a return trip to Dallas.
When I was younger, the CDC seemed credible and knew what the hell they were doing.
They’ve been infected(pun intended) with the same incompetence that permeates the entire government. It seems the only thing the government does well anymore is the functions which are AGAINST citizens. The IRS, EPA, NSA, DEA, ect...ect. (I KNOW I’m leaving out some)
The head of the CDC is a national embarrassment. He should have been fired weeks ago!
Sorry for multiple posts was trying on public Wi-Fi and it stuttered..
PING!
She was concerned enough to call the CDC. Everyone on the flight to Cleveland was also exposed. Plus the flight back to Dallas. If she caught it from someone who was infected and she was wearing at least some kind of protective clothing, how many people on that plane have caught it?
Diversity is our strength, remember?
It no longer matters if you can do a job or not...the important thing is race, sexual orientation, religion, or, if you're especially anti-American you can probably get a bonus when you're hired.
There is no room for merit and competency...White people usually win that contest.
“Spit on it and take two laps” didn’t work here, I guess.
It's odd how every story says she flew from Cleveland to Dallas, as if maybe she walked or rode a bike from Dallas to Cleveland.
I assume she flew from Dallas to Cleveland, but no one mentions that trip. Maybe because of the shaky assumption that those infected with ebola are not contagious until they show symptoms.
It is sort of positive to learn that she did contact the CDC about here return trip to Dallas, but it's odd that the trip to Cleveland is seldom if every mentioned. (Of course, the answer she got from the CDC doesn't help their already battered reputation.)
“On Wednesday, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, only three or four children were at an infant and child day-care center. It was a cloudless day, but on a baseball-field-size playground outside, there was nobody to be seen; the tricycles, slides and plastic toys — all untouched.
The only sign of life: one crow, sitting on a fence.”
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Wow. That sounds apocalyptic. I have written part of a novel on this topic...(not ebola), and that image sends chills down my spine.
I am supposed to make arrangements to fly out to Chicago (from Ottawa, Canada) to see my dad, sister and others. Now I seriously regret not having gone earlier.
My father’s immune system is compromised (I did read on an earlier thread somewhere that it may be a good thing, that people with the AIDs virus were less likely to get this? But that was a couple of days ago and I have no idea where on FR I saw that).
In any case, I don’t want to spread this to my dad. And at the same time, though, I am getting very concerned about my children, 15 and 19. They haven’t seen their grandfather in a long time. But I don’t want to put them into tight quarters on an airplane, etc. Public washrooms in an airport... etc. etc.
This whole situation ... stinks. Right before the holidays, right before flu season.
Stay safe, everyone.
She went to Cleveland after caring for Mr. Duncan, I believe.
“I understand that she flew from Dallas to Cleveland and then made a return trip to Dallas.”
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Ah, I see. Was she aware she was treating an ebola patient when she flew to Cleveland?? Are they checking people on that flight? Her friends or family?
Any news on anyone’s family... Mr. Duncan’s?
Oddly, no news about any spot outbreaks in Russia... I realized that today. No reporting? Or has no one at all in Russia been in contact with anyone who has been in or traveled from West Africa? I doubt that.
We need more information.
Like I said to a friend of mine today, it seems we’re all looking around for all of the horses, the cows, every barn animal, having forgotten to shut the barn door quite some time ago.
Same to you and good luck with what-ever you decide to do.
About three weeks ago, I asked my son to cancel his plans to come see me at Christmas. He called me 'Dr Doom.'
When he answered the email, he was in Copenhagen on vacation.
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