"The introduction has been successful. Phase 2 begins...just in time for the holidays."
Posted on 10/24/2014 6:25:08 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
dump their protective gloves and masks in a sidewalk trash can
New York City police officers were sent to mark of Dr. Craig Spencer's Harlem apartment building today Spencer is the first confirmed patient with Ebola in the city After the officers were done, they were seen throwing their gloves, masks and caution tape in a public trash can on the street
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All the neccessary scares and infections wouldn’t have happened had we either heavily restricted travel or set up an isolation on Ellis Island or somewhere for everyone traveling from the hot zone. That way, restrict them from infecting others and detect ebola symptoms early and therefore make the chances greater than Duncan at surviving if they actually do have ebola.
I don’t buy it. If some person has been in an ebola hot zone, they shouldn’t be allowed to donate blood, if they survived it they shouldn’t be allowed to donate blood for a long time either. In fact, a person’s blood is easily the most infectious bodily fluid for many diseases. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found that this was true for ebola too.
I am not someone who has been to medical school, but I have been trained in workplace first aid, and given the emphasis on blood as a dangerous means of disease transmission, I feel that extreme caution should be taken regarding the blood of someone who has ebola, even if they are asymptomatic.
On a family trip to the NY city years ago I remember the look on my kids faces when they saw a homeless individual reach into one of those trash containers and pull out a piece of chicken for his consumption.
It appears that the problem with it is largely, residual virus left behind by someone’s mess, and the fact that it can be very hard to detect every last cut on your body, or every last bit of bodily fluid, or maybe the virus is tough to kill with cleaning chemicals.
You forgot a few :
5. Outpacing medical ability (as in MSF overwhelmed in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone)and turned 30% of patients away.
6. Outpacing availability of medical supplies (need for saline IV which is already in short supply) ,
analygesics , and anti-diarrhea medications, PAPPR (space suit with air supply), gloves, booties, etc.
7. Overcomming insurance liability for Health Care Workers who are willing to remain and work intimately with patients.
8. Getting replacements for HCW (nurses/doctors/aides) who abandon Ebola care, and just walk away.
Exactly.
No matter how remote the possibility, Ebola has the genetic power to ruin humanity. Not directly but surely indirectly via commodity disruptions.
So why play russian roulette?
and those....lol
It’s a given some idiot will take that home and string it around his room.
Yup ! Someone on the Ebola Surveillance board contributed the fact that there were 15 truckloads of waste just from the two (2) patients at Emory.
At first , their regular waste disposal company refused to transport the waste.
After 10 days, the CDC decided to burn all the contaminated waste at their disposal unit, 10 miles away .
Can you imagine 15 truckloads of waste from just two (2) patients; then imagine the waste , hypothetically, from just 20 patients ? Talk about being overwelmed !!
Oh sure...the cost of cleanup not only in the hospital but housing...transports.
The system might collapse well before being overwhelmed.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Holy cow.
EXACTLY TRUE !!
And the New York City outbreak shall forever be known as THE KEYSTONE KOPS EPIDEMIC!!!
(Barney Fife better nip this one in the bud!)
“And the New York City outbreak shall forever be known as THE KEYSTONE KOPS EPIDEMIC!!! “
Uh,uh !
This is THE DOOFUS DOCTOR EPIDEMIC.
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