Mrs Danvers

Oh sure, there's a lot of fear instilled and you were right. I just wanted to add a few details.

To be fair to Presbyterian, I think this could have happened at many hospitals in the USA. They just happened to be the first hospital to get an ebola patient they were unprepared for. We just don't know how to deal with diseases as infectious as this. Lessons will be learned, I'm sure.

Michael

I think there is plenty of blame to go around for everyone involved. Today on the news, I heard that there are only 300 marines on the ground in West Africa with no field hospital and no gear for the local health care workers even though about a month ago, Obama announced that 3,000 marines would be sent to West Africa. The primary fight against Ebola has to be in West Africa and done quickly or else the world will just be putting out fires.

scrubbedexpat099

I seem to remember 100,000 deaths a year could be put down to Medical Malpractice, interesting that this one gets so much coverage. Such is life.

sir_eccles

Could be something to do with Congress stalling on approving the aid funds.

Michael

About another 40,000 die from the flu each year and about the same amount due to lack of health care insurance.

scrubbedexpat099

I guess that nobody is interested in real issues.

sir_eccles

Probably a good time to say "go get your flu shot" it's free (thanks Obama), don't become part of the triage problem.

Michael

The first nurse is now going to be transferred to NIH in Maryland.

Pham to be Transported to NIH in Maryland | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

cranston

That's the America we live in today.

Philk

Comment on another websites forum that has an Ebola thread: "I'm not afraid, I'll still go shopping"

kimilseung

Are we all going to be called up as ebola fodder?

Executive Order: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The White House

Mrs Danvers

Thanks for the info. I didn't even know about this. I keep my news reading to a minimum these days to avoid getting pissed off.

Poor buggers.

scrubbedexpat091

The 2nd nurse who flew on Frontier may have been symptomatic as early as Friday last week, the day she left Dallas for Ohio.

The airline and CDC are tracking down passengers from a total of 5 flights that operated on the aircraft she was on Friday as they may have been exposed.

I really hope the airline did more then a typical airplane clean on that plane just to be safe. A typical clean is superficial at best, quick spray and wipe.

Amber Vinson, Nurse Infected With Ebola, May Have Felt Ill As Early As Friday


I am also thinking the CDC may need a new director in the coming months.

FlaviusAetius

It's all public relations, Jsmth.

Frontier will give the plane the approved total bleach spray cleaning job, with workers in hazmat suits - and maybe even invite the pressers so they get out the story. That's even though the CDC assures us that the virus only lives a few hours on a dry surface, so the later flights were probably safe. But who really knows for certain?

The public relations cleaning process will continue with the CDC. If the Press Secretary assures us that Obama has full confidence in Frieden, you can be certain that his resignation already sits on the Maximum Leader's desk and that the next shoe will drop during the next news cycle. You might add Susan Rice to that, as well, following the Turkey debacle. We could get a two-fer.

FlaviusAetius

And...this just in from the NY Post:

"A passenger died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight after a vomiting fit Thursday — and a top lawmaker said officials gave the corpse only a “cursory” exam before declaring that the victim did not have Ebola.

The unnamed passenger, age 63, had boarded an Arik Air plane Wednesday night out of Lagos, Nigeria, which has had 19 Ebola cases this year though no new cases in the past month.

He was vomiting in his seat and died sometime before the plane landed around 6 a.m., the source said. The crew contacted the CDC, whose officials boarded the plane as about 145 worried passengers remained on board, a federal law enforcement source said."

Nothing to see here, move along folks. The CDC could tell, just by looking at the corpse, that he didn't have Ebola. It was probably just something he ate on the flight. Happens all the time. No need for a travel ban - that wouldn't be PC, anyway.