Ebola "out of control" in West Africa/Texas Maybe Cleveland?

[fan_since79]

Hate to be one of those 132 passengers and crew.

 

CDC wants them to contact them ASAP.

[fan_since79]

YIKES!!!

 

Obama cancels fundraising trip to attend Ebola meeting.

 

Okay, this is serious now.

[fan_since79]

Another tidbit: there are only four hospitals in the U.S. fully equipped to handle Ebola patients. They have a grand total of 11 beds available.

[Jay]

YIKES!!!

 

Obama cancels fundraising trip to attend Ebola meeting.

 

Okay, this is serious now.

 

wow nothing trumps fundraising

[sneaky_flute]

yep, neurotic.

 

good luck to you.

Guess what. I'll do my best to avoid coming into contact with anyone's bodily fluids. 

 

Stevestevens, these outbreaks are part of a tragic reality in Africa. It's a continent devastated by malaria, AIDS, rabies, and every other disease under the sun. The issue I'm addressing is the sensational garbage being propagated in the U.S. 

[fan_since79]

The second healthcare worker passed through the Cleveland airport on Monday on her way to Texas. The mayor held a press conference today.

 

"The problem is we have a problem. It's not that we don't know what the problems are; we've known those for years. It's not that we don't know what the solutions are; we've known those for years. The problem is we haven't done anything about it."

 

Wow, that tells us a lot.

[Sully151]

Actually, it does.

[fan_since79]

Frontier plane that carried #Ebola patient Monday flew 5x yesterday before her diagnosis- in & out of Atlanta Cleveland Ft Lauderdale #wsbtv

 

https://twitter.com/jodiewsb/status/522446078441168897

[gotbeer]

Man, some of the revelations are coming out about the hospital.  I wonder if this one is true.  But they say Duncan waited in the ER waiting room for an hour or two before they got to him.  

[fan_since79]

A little nugget from 2010:

 

The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm

Edited October 15, 2014 by fan_since79

[arch stanton]

A little nugget from 2010:

 

The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm

 

Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules, praised their withdrawal.

The Air Transport Association had decried them as imposing "unprecedented" regulations on airlines at costs they couldn't afford. "We think that the CDC was right to withdraw the proposed rule," association spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida said Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations and the proposal's "provisional quarantine" rule. That rule would have allowed the CDC to detain people involuntarily for three business days if the agency believed they had certain diseases: pandemic flu, infectious tuberculosis, plague, cholera, SARS, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria or viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola

 

Maybe we were busy arguing over who had to bake wedding cakes for gays when this debate was going on.

[stevestevens]

I could see why the policy was rejected.  It would be very hard to enforce.  I am more interested in hearing why the nurse was allowed to get on the flight.  She should have been in isolation and quarantined until the incubation period had passed.  

[fan_since79]

The second nurse had a fever of 99.5 while she was traveling, according to the Washington Post. I don't know where they got their information, but if true, she was probably already symptomatic and therefore contagious. There were 181 other people on that flight that the CDC is desperately trying to contact at this hour.

[nando714]

Lol this a nightmare

Only a matter of time

[fan_since79]

[Jay]

Pray that it really is as hard to catch as the CDC is saying.

[Jay]

 

LOL at the Obama blinders on the horse.

[Blarg]

How many people handled her baggage, how many stood in line with her, how many drinks did she have on the plane, cups, plates, napkins all which would have the potential of having her bodily fluids transferred to them? Nope, nothing to be concerned with just some garbage bags heading to a landfill.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Yah, but Dr. Flute says we'll be okay.

[Jay]

YIKES!!!

 

Obama cancels fundraising trip to attend Ebola meeting.

 

Okay, this is serious now.

 

Actually it's only postponed so there's nothing to worry about.

[Hollyw00d]

lol, that's not catastrophizing at all.

flute is right, some of you are swallowing the sensationalism whole

[fan_since79]

The CDC chief got himself tied up like a pretzel trying to convince us that a travel ban would actually spread the disease.

 

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one.

[Sully151]

The second nurse had a fever of 99.5 while she was traveling, according to the Washington Post. I don't know where they got their information, but if true, she was probably already symptomatic and therefore contagious. There were 181 other people on that flight that the CDC is desperately trying to contact at this hour.

That is .5 degrees over what is still considered normal.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

That is .5 degrees over what is still considered normal.

Yah but shouldn't common sense come into play? You just got done treating a patient with ebola. Any spike in body temperature should be some sort of sign ?

[RallyMo]

That is .5 degrees over what is still considered normal.

 

As we've seen, that's good enough, no?