Only hours after the Centers for Disease Control reassured the American public the health-care procedures at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were adequate to contain Ebola, CDC announced a second health-care worker who treated the “index patient,” Thomas Eric Duncan from Liberia, has been diagnosed with the disease.
At an early morning press conference in Dallas, hospital officials admitted they are “learning as they go” as concerns mount nationwide that the CDC may not have fully understood how Ebola is transmitted and that CDC protocols may be inadequate.
CDC, nevertheless, said in an early morning press release Wednesday, “As we have said before, because of our ongoing investigation, it is not unexpected that there would be additional exposures.”
The nurse, however, identified as 29-year-old Amber Jay Vinson, took a flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Monday, the day before she reported symptoms.
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Treating Ebola patients is a deadly job. There is no room for error when putting on and taking off protective gear. Doctors and nurses face a deadly fact make a mistake and you die. We heard there is no chance of an outbreak in America because we have modern medical facilities. Here is a FACT U.S. hospitals are ridden with mistakes. Common infections rage through hospitals because doctors and nurses sometimes forget even the basic protocol.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the authorities assume Ebola will be any different?
As to our “modern medical facilities” many hospitals also lack equipment. Texas Health nurses relied on face masks, which is what the CDC prescribes. However, epidemiologists at the University of Illinois explain that Ebola "has the potential to be transmitted through aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients.” This means that health-care workers should be wearing respirators, not face masks. As to the CDC claim we are prepared, eighty-five percent of nurses surveyed by National Nurses United said they hadn't received Ebola training so much for the CDC claim on being prepared.
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eighty-five percent of nurses surveyed by National Nurses United said they hadn't received Ebola training so much for the CDC claim on being prepared.
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Who puts these people in charge of life and death situations? Is this the
ReplyDeletebuddy situation where you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. I've noticed
in most of the gov organizations the best of the best is not chosen but the
worst of the worst and is based on who one knows and who they are.
Every disaster in the US that I have been around for has been made worse by
the incompetence of the "experts." Bloody clowns!
the best of the best is not chosen but theworst of the worst and is based on who one knows and who they are.
DeleteIn my experience also.